You can even go a little further and use trigraphs, which is one of those ancient features that most people have forgotten because it doesn't make much sense anymore. ??< and ??> are equivalent to { and } in C, which could be handy for further obfuscation.
If you wanted to fuck it up proper, you should leave out this line. You don't want to dampen the horror people will have when they see you actually using gets.
Any job worth doing is worth doing right. Contrariwise, any job worth fucking up is worth fucking up stupendously. He didn't go all the way.