Hi, I understand that the standard convention is to put the test case in a separate file under the "t/" directory, but is it possible to put the testing code in the same file? sort of like "main" in java, or the qq/if __name__ == "__main__"/ trick in python? I was trying to do the follwoing: 
# file Foo.pm
package Foo;
sub foo{
    print "foo called\n";
}

# the following are testing code
package main;
Foo::foo();

1;

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which I can then run "perl Foo.pm", but I can't "use" it in other scripts because the "main" section will get executed. I guess one way to ask is whether a package can know how it is used? Thanks

In reply to Modules containing test code in the same file by johnnywang

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