[sf-perl] perl on a mac ...

[Simon Wistow]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10:08PM -0700, Rich Morin said:
> <snark>
> Isn't it about time somebody created something like irb (the
> interactive ruby interpreter) for Perl?  Sorry, I forgot; the
> developers are all busy (re-)designing Perl 6...
> </snark>

In typical Perl fashion there's not one, there's loads

http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Devel-REPL-1.002001/lib/Devel/REPL.pm

http://search.cpan.org/src/AYRNIEU/App-REPL-0.012/iperl

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Perl/lib/Shell/Perl.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~ferreira/Shell-Perl-0.0018/bin/pirl

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlconsole/

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Base/Base.pm

amongst others and of which Devel::REPL is probably the best.

There's even a 3 part article about it

http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute-print-loop-repl.html

Usefully there's also something which drops you into the REPL if an 
exception is thrown

http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Carp-REPL-0.13/lib/Carp/REPL.pm

Hell, there's even an entire Shell written in Perl

http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/Zoidberg-0.96/