LREP

A fun little REPL for perl6 inspired by Pry, nREPL, and others

[!WARNING] This project is abandoned! Please check out the much more recent and maintained REPL. It has the most important and magical feature -- the ability to add a REPL-powered breakpoint to interactively explore from the middle of your program!

EXAMPLE

Demo program:

use LREP;

sub hmm {
  my $x = "hello";
  LREP::here;
  say $x;
}

hmm;

Then when you run it you get a prompt. You can look at local vars and change them. "^D" to continue.

> $x
hello
> $x = "bye"
bye
> ^D
bye

TODO / IDEAS

• Middleware / Plugins
  • Make adding plugins easy. Middleware == Plugins!
  • Make plugins powerful -- build off of each other, declarative help
  • Make everything a plugin
  • Extract middleware into separate files
  • Adopt some middleware-dependency concepts like nREPL has?
• Make (optionally) client/server
• Hook up a next/step debugger
• Steal more from core REPL for tab-complete
• Add handy plugins from Pry
  • ls -- list current context methods, list methods of obj
  • show-source -- show the source code of something
  • show-doc -- show the documentation for something
  • @ / whereami -- show the current surrounding source code
  • help -- help!