LREP

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

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!