IPL - From Debugger to Interactive Shell
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".
Attended by: Rolf Langsdorf (LanX), Catalin Ciurea (catalin), Snorri Briem, Dominic Humphries (djh), Erik Johansen (uniejo), Yanick Champoux (Yanick), Michal Jurosz (mj41), marc chantreux (eiro), Farhad Fouladi, Mike Eve, Peter Heuchert, Robin Sheat, André Santos (andrefs), Francisco Lourenço (fml), Tobias Reimann, Alex Timoshenko, Winfried Puchinger (winpuc), Jean Forget, Miguel Godinho, Gerhard Raffius, António Martins (ammartins), Vincent Bachelier (geistteufel), Darko Obradovic, Hilko Bengen (hillu), Patrick Ringl (pari), Hans-Jürgen Schloz, Matthias Zeichmann, Sören Laird Sörries, Jeroen Visser (jvisser), Asbjørn Thegler (ath), Jesper Dalberg, anca grosan (ancag), Gunnar Koppel (wk), Christian Altergott, Stepan Cenek, Oliver Miller, Oleg Komarov (komarov),
