Correct -- there are some excellent REPLs for perl5 such as Devel::REPL and tinyrepl.
The advantage for Perl 6 will be (but is not yet) it's multi-threaded friendliness. I am slowly working on the tools to build something like clojure's nREPL -- a client/server repl where your console, editor, and even front-end world can all be talking to an interactive instance of your application with deep introspection and cool coordination through middleware. Once it is working, rakudo-js will then allow this to get some really sweet workflows going, where you can edit code in your editor, have it pushed up to your browser, and use a console on the server to inspect and manipulate the state on the browser during interactive development. On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Yubin Ruan <ablacktsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 04:46:38PM -0400, Parrot Raiser wrote: > > The REPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop) is a major benefit that doesn't > > get mentioned much. It's going to be a great help in training courses; > > so much so that I'm trying to think of a way of achieving one in Perl > > 5. > > Although REPL really provide greate help for people to get start in > learning a new language, I don't think we should call the REPL a language > feature. It's just a implementation feature. I believe one can easily add > a REPL for perl5(anyone here did?). > > I would vote for the concurrency feature and the so called built-in OO. > > By the way, can I have a chance to watch this talk? Would it be uploaded to > Youtube in the future ? > > thanks, > ruan > > > On 8/20/16, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: > > > > > >> On 20 Aug 2016, at 22:14, Tony Edwardson <tony.edward...@gmail.com> > > >> wrote: > > >> In a few weeks I will be presenting a talk on a technical meeting for > > >> Milton Keynes Perl Mongers and I have decided to try and sell the > benefits > > >> of Perl 6 to a bunch of Perl 5 experts. > > >> I am interested in your opinion on which of the many features of Perl > 6 > > >> are the main reasons why anyone would migrate to Perl 6 from Perl 5. > > >> Any opinions greatly appreciated. > > > > > > This is the text of the most up-to-date version of the Perl 6 Brochure > that > > > Wendy made: > > > > > > https://wendyga.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/why-would-you-want- > to-use-perl-6-some-answers/ > > > > > > Hope that helps :-) > > > > > > > > > Liz >
