You do make some valid points, but I take exception with the following:
A good REPL is a powerful, and easy to use tool which is useful above and beyond simple experimentation. The Perl debugger on the other hand does not allow you write code without debugger commands sprinkled within it
using the debugger in this context doesnt require a single debugger command. the x command mentioned in the nodes above helps to print out simple data structures, but that can just as well be accomplished using plain old print statements or (a method I'm fond of) the Data::Dumper module.

Just my $0.02

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In reply to Re^5: RFC: IPerl - Interactive Perl ( read-eval-print loop ) (-de_) by EvanK
in thread RFC: IPerl - Interactive Perl ( read-eval-print loop ) by mseabrook

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