Jason (>), Juan (>>): >> Does Perl6/Rakudo have an interactive perl shell like ruby does with irb? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Ruby_Shell >> >> Would be great for trying out the new syntax quickly. > > My phone accidentally sent an empty reply to this. What I was supposed to > reply with was information regarding the built-in Rakudo REPL. You can see > it in action here: > > http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/day-1-getting-rakudo/
A mention of today's RE(P)L in Rakudo practically mandates a mention of its known deficiencies: <http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/38279> Last I heard, pmichaud++ was well under way to fixing the annoying variable-forgetting bug, by extending the way &eval works. // Carl
