I always use Term::ReadLine in conjunction with Term::Readline::Perl and Term::ReadLine::Gnu, the first one creates an interface for the others and is recommend to install all of them. Here’s a nice shell you can have with Term::ReadLine 
use Term::ReadLine; 

my $shell = Term::ReadLine->new('myshell');
$_ = $shell->Features();
my $history = ${%$_}{autohistory};
$SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE';
while(1) {
    my $return;
    $command = $shell->readline('myshell> ');
    { local $SIG{INT} = sub {die 'End';};
        $return = eval($command);
        }
    if (!$history) { $term->addhistory($_) if /\S/;
    }
}

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You could play with : 
 
myshell> @test = (a,b,c,d)
myshell> print "@test";
myshell> a b c d

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or 
 
myshell> open OUT, '>/tmp/test';
myshell> print OUT "Hello world !"; close OUT

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In reply to Re: Pressing Delete key ends Term::ReadLine loop by cord-bin
in thread Pressing Delete key ends Term::ReadLine loop by Anonymous Monk

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