"I wonder what this perl code does..."

[pauamma]

When I get one of those moments, I reach for "perl -e" (because it's always available with perl), but someone mentioned the following 2 tools recently on a mailing list I read, so I thought I'd pass them on:

- perlconsole
- Devel::Repl

(Crossposted to perl.)

Comments

[afuna]

Belatedly, because I was struggling with some installation issues at first - thanks, these look useful!

[pauamma]

Can you elaborate on the problems you had installing them and the solution? That sounds worth sharing.

[afuna]

I think that it's just something broken in my perl installation on my Mac OSX -- I eventually figured out that I had to remove "-arch ppc" from the generated Makefile each time. That got me through install perlconsole.

With Devel::REPL, I ran into problems installing one of its dependencies to the point where I gave up.

However, I had no such problem installing perlconsole on Ubuntu (running in a VM), and am in the middle of install Devel::REPL...

[pauamma]

Ah, OK. MacOSX problem rather than a problem with the others, then. Gotcha.