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# Include a file

Raku provides a module system that is based primarily on importation of symbols rather than on inclusion of textual code:

```perl
use MyModule;
```

However, one can evaluate code from a file:

```perl
require 'myfile.p6';
```

One can even do that at compile time:

```perl
BEGIN require 'myfile.p6'
```

None of these are true inclusion, unless the `require` cheats and modifies the current input string of the parser. To get a true textual inclusion, one could define an unhygienic textual macro like this:

```perl
macro include(AST $file) { slurp $file.eval }
include('myfile.p6');
```