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"When they BEGIN, the BEGIN..." Apologies to Cole Porter.

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Re^2: BEGIN and compile-time
by jbert (Priest) on Nov 02, 2006 at 18:02 UTC
    Heh. Would you believe this is my actual snippet which gave me the aha moment when I ran it? :-) 
    BEGIN {
    print "begin\n";
    BEGIN {
        print "the beguine\n";
    }
}

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