Re: Perl as interactive Shell?

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Re^2: Perl as interactive Shell? by LanX (Saint) on May 12, 2017 at 15:08 UTC
yes, IIRC zoidberg had a good handling of Term::Readline (I don't like the underlying documentation of Gnu-Readline ) And there was also another attempt ("perlshell" ? "psh"?) where pipe was overloaded. But I'm asking about technical limitations, because I'm thinking about patching the perldebugger in a REPL/Shell way. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!} update see also using perldebugger as REPL?	[reply]
Re^3: Perl as interactive Shell? by RonW (Parson) on May 12, 2017 at 22:51 UTC
Technically, seems like it should work fine. It would probably be convenient for at least some one-off tasks, or for working out the logic of a script-able procedure. And a lot of what can be done in sh can be done in Perl with out using external executables. (Not that I see anything intrinsically wrong with using external executables - especially when sh issues can be avoided by bypassing *sh.)	[reply]
Re^2: Perl as interactive Shell? by perldigious (Priest) on May 22, 2017 at 16:58 UTC
Hopefully the Zoidberg Shell has more features than the only one available through the company health plan... :-) Sorry, I can't help myself. I love Futurama way too much and to my surprise I'd never heard of Zoidberg before this... Okay, not that surprising, I've ever needed a Perl Shell before. Just another Perl hooker - Working on the corner... corner conditions that is.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl as interactive Shell? by marto (Cardinal) on May 22, 2017 at 20:10 UTC
Almost obligatory.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl as interactive Shell? by perldigious (Priest) on May 23, 2017 at 17:29 UTC
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! But I am slightly disappointed that there isn't some sort of scuttle method call, or something like that, in there somewhere. :-( Just another Perl hooker - Working on the corner... corner conditions that is.	[reply]

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