<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This is very encouraging. Maybe one of these will work for me. But, it will take a while to explore so much. Thanks Simon, Walt.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Thursday, at , Simon Wistow wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:10:08PM -0700, Rich Morin said:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><snark><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Isn't it about time somebody created something like irb (the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">interactive ruby interpreter) for Perl? Sorry, I forgot; the<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">developers are all busy (re-)designing Perl 6...<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"></snark><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In typical Perl fashion there's not one, there's loads<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Devel-REPL-1.002001/lib/Devel/REPL.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~mstrout/Devel-REPL-1.002001/lib/Devel/REPL.pm</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/src/AYRNIEU/App-REPL-0.012/iperl">http://search.cpan.org/src/AYRNIEU/App-REPL-0.012/iperl</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Perl/lib/Shell/Perl.pm">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Perl/lib/Shell/Perl.pm</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~ferreira/Shell-Perl-0.0018/bin/pirl">http://search.cpan.org/~ferreira/Shell-Perl-0.0018/bin/pirl</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlconsole/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/perlconsole/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Base/Base.pm">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Shell-Base/Base.pm</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">amongst others and of which Devel::REPL is probably the best.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">There's even a 3 part article about it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute-print-loop-repl.html">http://chainsawblues.vox.com/library/post/a-perl-read-excute-print-loop-repl.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Usefully there's also something which drops you into the REPL if an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">exception is thrown<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Carp-REPL-0.13/lib/Carp/REPL.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~sartak/Carp-REPL-0.13/lib/Carp/REPL.pm</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hell, there's even an entire Shell written in Perl<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/Zoidberg-0.96/">http://search.cpan.org/~pardus/Zoidberg-0.96/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SanFrancisco-pm mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org">SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>