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A dangerous \if@ in the dtx preamble

Why does the following .dtx not compile, while the equivalent .tex file does? (You must name the file error.dtx, that's what \DocInput includes.) DTX: % \iffalse meta-comment %<*driver> ...
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How do I test for a character, irrespective of catcode?

This came up from Labels in TikZ are incorrectly interpreted, but it's also something I've run into with the braids package, and a couple of other things I've done. Also, from looking at the TikZ ...