Try using "my" in a REPL and you won't fair any better.

Yes, yes, I know, with some arcane commands and such I can get the debugger to do those thing, but why should I have too?

Yes, yes, I know, if one bothers to even take a few minutes to look up just the barest of information about these "arcane" commands, one would likely quite quickly find "x" which is all that is needed to make "perl -dex" a REPL. But why bother when one can instead spend that time composing a node to demonstrate how little one knows about the debugger and how uninterested one is in learning more. :) 

 % perl -dex
  DB<1> x @foo= 1..10
0  1
1  2
2  3
3  4
4  5
5  6
6  7
7  8
8  9
9  10
  DB<2> x "@foo"
0  '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'
  DB<3>

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But seriously, a debugger is so not a REPL.

No, it is much more useful. It is just trivial to use it as a REPL and is always handy on any standard Perl installation.

A REPL is useful for experimenting. A debugger is also useful for experimenting but is even more useful for experimenting in the context of the middle of some script or module code.

When I wrote each Win32API:: module I would use the Perl debugger to experiment with the API that I had just wrapped in order to document it properly (the official API documentation was usually vague about several interesting points, for example).

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: RFC: IPerl - Interactive Perl ( read-eval-print loop ) (-de_) by tye
in thread RFC: IPerl - Interactive Perl ( read-eval-print loop ) by mseabrook

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