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in thread conditional self-execution

exactly the same thing in perl

When you misquote me ("something else" instead of what I actually said: "something to that effect"), that sure does seem like it's the case.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
 - apotheon
CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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Re^5: conditional self-execution
by cdarke (Prior) on Jan 28, 2008 at 09:25 UTC
    __FILE__ is exactly the same thing in perl: a variable, a constant, or something else.

    Except that it cannot be interpolated (not unreasonably).
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      "This string varies depending on @{[__FILE__]}."

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      Thus, it is not "something to that effect", but it is "something else".

      print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
      		 - apotheon
      CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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