You can already do something of the sort with PPI, but the problem is that the conventions for classes and many other "simple" things in Perl 5 make it less useful than with 'rigid' languages like Haskell, Java, etc.

autrijus is one notable happy user of eclipse, when he's not using vim.

This level of introspection, making it "easy" to edit Perl with refactoring editors is one of the goals of Perl 6.

$h=$ENV{HOME};my@q=split/\n\n/,`cat $h/.quotes`;$s="$h/."
."signature";$t=`cat $s`;print$t,"\n",$q[rand($#q)],"\n";
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