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

[Joe Brenner]

Paul Makepeace <Paul.Makepeace at realprogrammers.com> wrote:
> Joe Brenner <doom at kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > Rich Morin <rdm at cfcl.com> wrote:

> > > <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>
> >
> > What would an irb get you that the perldb doesn't?
>
> A less unpleasant interface,
>
> http://london.pm.org/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20081110/015663.html

I see, I would say the main advantage from my point of view is that irb
let's you do multi-line expressions... do you do that a lot?  I can't
say I see what it's for exactly.