I strongly suspect that is a template variable that will be expanded to a real Perl path as part of the process which puts the program into production.
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As others have said, what you have is a shebang line for a script that has not yet been deployed.
What is to the right of the #! has no effect on Windows systems, as these find perl using a file type association, or the script gets turned into a .bat file with a different preamble. If the line could be parsed into a perl command and options, e.g. -w these options would be applied.
Unix systems expect to see the full path to perl. Sometimes #!perl will work via $ENV{PATH}, but this is considered unreliable and insecure.
The standard script installing mechanism used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker invokes MY->fixin over each script. This will cause your placeholder shebang line to be replaced with a real one that has a path to perl. The fixin method does different things depending on your platform, for example it runs pl2bat on Windows.
On Unix, fixin does the following:
Extract the command and any arguments If the command is the string 'perl' get the interpreter path from $Config{startperl}. Else if there was a different command parsed out, use $Config{perlpath} Otherwise, try and find the perl executable by looking in the path.
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To build on Ultra's reply, it may be a directive for a text editor. For example my editor, JED, opens in perl mode based on extension (.pl) and/or shebang line. But for my modules I did not set up an association. I always put a
# -*- Perl -*-
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Was that line the first line of a Perl program?
If that's the case, then the kernel should run what is after the shebang,meaning '@@PERL@@' which I think is an error.
If not, it is just a comment.
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Perl will process any options it finds after the word "perl" on the shebang line. I believe this is case insensitive. So #!@@PERL@@ -w (for example) as the first line of the program should turn on warnings.
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