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The ellipses are enough to make that quote inaccurate. This is a package with a block, which means it continues until the end of the block. Which means that at the end of the block, things go back to being in the surrounding package.
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Re^8: Which internal DSL are there in Perl? (Domain Specific Languages - Part 1)
by soonix (Chancellor) on Aug 04, 2017 at 16:28 UTC
    I don't think so. Yes, it's a partial quote, but what I left off (end of surrounding block etc.) doesn't change much. When a package begins, the previous package ends. As I understand it, at end of enclosing block, the package ends, and you are in package main.
    Update: I was completely wrong, see below...
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      As I understand it, at end of enclosing block, the package ends, and you are in package main.

      No. You are back in the package you came from:

      package Foo {
    print "(1) package " . __PACKAGE__ . $/;
    package Bar {
        print "(2) package " . __PACKAGE__ . $/;
    }
    print "(3) package " . __PACKAGE__ . $/;
}
print "(4) package " . __PACKAGE__ . $/;
__END__
(1) package Foo
(2) package Bar
(3) package Foo
(4) package main

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      perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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        That's what I deserve for posting before testing :-/
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