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in thread conditional self-execution

__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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Re^6: conditional self-execution
by halley (Prior) on Jan 28, 2008 at 15:49 UTC 
    "This string varies depending on @{[__FILE__]}."

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Re^6: conditional self-execution
by apotheon (Deacon) on Jan 28, 2008 at 10:21 UTC

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

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