There are various REPL programs for perl, as a simple google search will attest. You might take a look at them and see if any fit your needs. With Terminal::Readline (IIRC) and the eval statement, it's not too difficult to cobble something together a simple REPL. So you might start with a simple one and add whatever features you want...

A couple links that google gave me are:

...roboticus

Update: I didn't even think of CPAN which has a few interesting REPL and Shell modules. (e.g. Devel::REPL, Carp::REPL, Perl::Shell, ....)

In reply to Re: I like Python's interactive shell a lot better than Perl's debugger. What are my alternatives? by roboticus
in thread I like Python's interactive shell a lot better than Perl's debugger. What are my alternatives? by Anonymous Monk

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