[SOLVED] Detecting syntax check run

vsespb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am inventing some workarounds for this Re: Circular dependencies when using the perl syntax checker problem, and I want to detect that current program run is not a real run but just a syntax check (with "perl -c").

What is the best way to detect this. Currently I only see that $0 is empty in this case.

BEGIN/CHECK/UNITCHECK/END/etc and GLOBAL_PHASE does not look helpful here

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Re: Detecting syntax check run by ambrus (Abbot) on Nov 23, 2013 at 19:48 UTC
See the `$^C` variable in perlvar please.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Detecting syntax check run by vsespb (Chaplain) on Nov 23, 2013 at 20:00 UTC
Thank you! That's it!	[reply]