[PLUG] Re: Perl interpreter hangs

[Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "en" == ed nestor <ejn88@voicenet.com> writes:

  en> Python has a prompt, Scheme has a prompt, I assumed Perl had a
  en> prompt. Thank you for being persistent with me.  I understand
  en> now.

Ah, I didn't realize what you meant by a prompt.

Perl is more like awk or sed than python or scheme in that it expects
you to use it as a filter, and you can drop it in somewhere and it
will readily read from stdin and spew to stdout.

As Kyle mentioned, you can check out the perl debugger (perl -d)

Read perldebug with perldoc perldebug, and there is a new man page in
the development sources called perldebtut.  I have HTMLized this and
put it here as it makes good reading for a first time introduction to
the debugger, but is unavailable without access to the bleeding edge
of Perl development.

<http://jibsheet.com/perldebtut.html>
<http://jibsheet.com/perldebtut.pod>

-kevin

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