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"Only"? (Score:1)

by educated_foo (3106)

The only multi-line REPL? Not true! Sepia also does this, by trying to eval the input so far and parsing $@ to guess what went wrong. It's not perfect, but it does a decent job of distinguishing between incomplete input and internal syntax errors.
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  by sartak (7900)
  
  Ah. I've seen Sepia before in search results, but I've never actually checked it out (seeing as how I'm a vim guy).
  
  Interesting way to solve the same problem. Both have their strengths and weaknesses (PPI is more correct and won't run BEGIN/CHECK blocks, Sepia probably handles more cases, such as s/// and quoted strings)
  - Re:"Only"? (Score:1)
    
    by educated_foo (3106) on 2007.09.22 2:50 (#57977) Journal
    
    It *should* be possible to integrate Sepia's REPL with vim, or to use it separately with e.g. rlwrap, though I haven't tried it much. And the approach I take is mostly inferior to PPI, other than having far fewer prerequisites.
    
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