That sounds like a great idea.
On 2/7/16, Rob Hoelz <r...@hoelz.ro> wrote:
> Hi Perl 6 users!
>
> I've developed an experimental branch that introduces multi-line input to
> the REPL. What this means is when you
> enter this:
>
> > for ^10 {
>
> instead of seeing a "Missing block" error, the prompt changes, so you can
> finish the block:
>
> > for ^10 {
> * .say
> * }
>
> You can see a gif of this in action here:
> http://hoelz.ro/files/multi-line-repl.gif
>
> To try the branch, checkout the experiment-multi-line-repl branch, and use
> the corresponding NQP branch:
>
> $ git checkout experiment-multi-line-repl
> $ perl Configure.pl --gen-nqp=experiment-multi-line-repl --gen-moar &&
> make install
>
> Keep in mind that this branch is very experimental; it fails a few
> spectests, the way it works is a little less-than-awesome,
> and I don't know if it has more subtle bugs that roast or I haven't picked
> up. If you have time, please test it out and try to
> shake out any bugs. Feel free to help me fix the few failing roast tests or
> suggest ways I could do multi-line better! I'll
> be working on it over the next few days; in addition to fixes, I'll try to
> add Linenoise/ReadLine support so that multi-line
> entries are treated as single entries in the command history.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Rob
>
