On the off chance that you happen to be a fan of Ruby (and from what I'm hearing, it's worth looking into), you may be interested to know that Neil Watkiss has announced the initial release of Inline::Ruby. You can download it here. He states that the module has a lot of bugs and is incomplete, but he welcomes test cases and patches. Code from his announcement:

use Inline Ruby;

my $obj = new Iterator(1, "2", [3], {4 => 5});
$obj->each_iter(sub {
    use Data::Dumper;
    my $element = shift;
    print "It looks like Ruby passed me this: ", Dumper($element);
});

__END__
__Ruby__

class Iterator
  def initialize(*elements)
    @elements = elements
  end
  def each
    @elements.each { |x| yield x }
  end
end

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Output:

ttul:~/dev/cpan/Inline-Ruby$ perl -Mblib t.pl
Using /home/nwatkiss/dev/cpan/Inline-Ruby/blib
It looks like Ruby passed me this: $VAR1 = 1;
It looks like Ruby passed me this: $VAR1 = [3];
It looks like Ruby passed me this: $VAR1 = '2';
It looks like Ruby passed me this: $VAR1 = {'4' => 5};

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Other comments from his announcement:

I've tested it with Ruby 1.6.3 through 1.6.6, against Perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. I've only tried it on Linux so far. All helpers are welcome!

Some things which aren't working:
+ can't bind to functions (only classes & methods).
+ using iterators requires you to add "_iter" to the end of the method name (ugly, confusing)

Cheers,
Ovid

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