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__PACKAGE__ is turned into, at compile time, the current package when it is compiled. (That is, the one established by package statements.)

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Re4: __PACKAGE__ interpolated before inheritence
by blakem (Monsignor) on Dec 09, 2001 at 01:44 UTC
    To see this in action: 
    % perl -MO=Deparse -e 'use constant Y => "foo"; $x="bar"; return __PAC
+KAGE__, $x, Y'

  sub Y () {
      package constant;
      $scalar;
  }
  $x = 'bar';
  return 'main', $x, 'foo';   # <=== inlined values at compile time...

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    Notice that __PACKAGE__ and the constant Y got inlined at compile time, whereas $x did not.

    -Blake

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