But the perldebugger is the standard "perl shell" and distributed with every installation ...

So does it make sense to build parallel structures if it could be extended this way???

I mean compare the impact on beginners while playing around with python or ruby with the need to tell them to call perl -de0 and then type x every time or alternatively to install psh.

Looking at the documentation, I have the impression that multilines are not automatically detected. Right?

 perl$ sub Foo {
 perl>  print "Foo called\n";<P>

 ERROR: Missing right bracket at (eval 3) line 5, at end of line
 syntax error at (eval 3) line 5, at EOF
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But I really appreciate that it supports shell-piping syntax! 8 )

UPDATE:

I just installed it as a .deb package and it works fine, especially multilines work without problems. 8 )

But please where is the P from REPL? How can I make it autoprint, what the actual command returns? Couldn't find it in the manpage ...

psh% for (1..3)  {
> print ;
> }
123psh% # Multilines work smoothly 8 )
psh% 10/3
psh% # But the result is not printed like in sepia
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OK, think I found it

lanx@xubuntu:~$ psh
psh% option echo=1
psh% 10/5
$Psh::val[0] = "2"
psh%
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That's a different PSH. I did not release mine to CPAN in time and someone else released his. And I was too lazy to rename it. As far as mine goes ... it keeps accumulating lines until it finds one ending with a semicolon. I would not want it to print the return value of everything, if I want to eval and get the value I use

psh$ ? 10/5
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It might be good if there was a REPL installed with Perl, but I bet most people would not use it anyway.

Jenda


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