first thought is that (while interesting) it probably isn't worth doing and would be better to stick with the stand ways of making a distribution/test suite, regardless of the simplicity (two methods and a class variable) of the module.

that being said, for the sake of discussion, my immediate second thought (before reading that you had it) was to check $0 and compare it to __FILE .. though i think you're right and it might be messy (though maybe not).. might be easy if combined with File::Spec to convert any relative path to absolute.

anyways, then another, and i think better, way pooped into my head: 
package Foo;
...
__END__
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Foo;
# run tests here.

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This way you can use Foo; normally (or require, etc) from other scripts, but you can also do perl -x Foo.pm

In reply to Re: Self-testing modules by davidrw
in thread Self-testing modules by DrWhy

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