By Rolf Langsdorf (‎LanX‎) from Darmstadt.pm
Date: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:15
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: interactive repl shell

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In comparison to many other script languages the Perl project lacks a convenient interactive shell which is available out of the box.

For instance Rubys "irb" has many advantages over using Perl's debugger started with "perl -de0".

We will show an approach to extend/reconfigure the perldebugger in a way to achieve:

- a REPL feeling by dumping the return values automatically without needing to prepend an p or x command.

- automatic multiline support including indentation (i.e. w/o needing to append "\\")

- importing shell commands for everyday use of commands like "ls" or "cd".

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