I recently I've written Devel::REPL plugins to call a trepan or perl5db debugger from re.pl via Enbugger. If there are other plugins for this, I'd be interested to compare.
https://github.com/rocky/Perl-Devel-Trepan-Shell has the code. In my repl.rc load the plugins: $_REPL->load_plugin('Trepan'); $_REPL->load_plugin('Perl5db'); Then to get into the debugger %trepan your-code-here or %perl5db some-other-code-here More could be done to better show return values, and there are some weirdnesses in the trepan plugin when re.pl is exited, but overall it works. - - - I was looking at perl5db code and noticed that numeric value of @dbline is its COP reference. (In trepan.pl "info program" now shows this when it is available). I thought this would be a win for being able to more precisely indicate where you are and to set breakpoints within lines which have multiple statements on them. Such an example line might be: if ($x) { $y--; if ($y) { $z += 1 } else { $z -= 1 }; } else { $z = 10 }; If you disassemble via B::Concise, you'll see several COPs for this line. However the @dbline entry for that line always seems to be the first COP rather than the one that called DB::DB.