At Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:53:25 -0400, > By the way, this isn't the list for it, but it would be cool if perl6 had > an interactive mode as good as python's. It's one of the few places I > think python has a compelling lead.
I'm sort of partial to: perl -MTerm::ReadLine -le '$t = new Term::ReadLine; print eval while $_ = $t->readline("> ");' Other than having to retrain yourself not to use "my" (because you don't get lexicals across promps), it's not that bad. Or, if you're an Emacs user and don't mind a few rough edges: http://search.cpan.org/~seano/sepia-0.57/ /s