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Yet another Perl REPL

Journal written by ferreira (5993) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2007.08.30 15:43   

I saw the new perlconsole-0.3 distribution today on CPAN Recent Uploads and that reminded me something. Some months ago you had to look a lot to find out some Perl REPL, but now this thing is "fashionable". You actually may choose among:

• Shell::Perl
• Devel::REPL
• App::REPL
• perlconsole

(Obviously, there is more: including alternatives that I know of but don't remember an appropriate link and probably others that I've never heard about.)

Some knowledgeable guys have written about that as well.

• Matt Trout with Writing a perl read-eval-print loop (REPL) - part 1 and many other blog entries
• chromatic in Writing a Modern Perl REPL

and, from times to times, we see comments popping up here and there that touches this kind of tool (eg. tokuhirom with I wrote Test::ShellPerl).

Unfortunately, I have been a bit careless about Shell::Perl (pirl) in the last months. But it is far from abandoned, as I discover more people using it.

Have a thought about that? Please, share.

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• Pirl

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  by awwaiid (5634) <awwaiid@thelackthereof.org> on 2007.08.30 14:29 (#57284)
  ( http://thelackthereof.org/ | Last Journal: 2005.02.02 3:42 )

  I've been using pirl for the last month or so and find it very lovely! Especially with the quite readable Data::Dump output.

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  • Re:Pirl by deckard (Score:1) 2007.08.31 2:39
    • Re:Pirl by steph (Score:1) 2007.08.31 7:53
• Bad URL

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  by plambert (4142) on 2007.08.30 17:54 (#57288)
  ( Last Journal: 2003.09.06 21:43 )

  Your link to wikipedia is broken, as it is missing the "http://" Paul

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  • Re:Bad URL by ferreira (Score:1) 2007.08.31 11:18
    • Re:Bad URL by stu42j (Score:1) 2007.08.31 11:24
      • Re:Bad URL by mr_bean (Score:1) 2007.09.04 22:21
• Carp::REPL

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  by sartak (7900) on 2007.09.02 0:50 (#57351)
  ( http://sartak.katron.org/ )

  Person 1: Python (Django specifically) has a feature where if an exception is thrown, it drops you into a REPL.

  Person 2: I wonder how hard it would be to add that to Perl.

  Person 3: Depends on how sick and twisted you want to get.

  Thus, Carp::REPL [cpan.org] was born. :) It uses Devel::REPL for the repl-y bits. Hope someone finds it useful!

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