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The Perl REPL

One liners with Perl

$ perl -E 'say "hello"'
hello

Interactive session with Reply

$ reply
0> 1 + 1
$res[0] = 2
1> say "hello";
hello
$res[1] = 1
2> use URI;
3> URI->new("https://duckduckgo.com");
$res[2] = bless( do{\(my $o = 'https://duckduckgo.com')}, 'URI::https' )

Suggested configuration for Reply

Create the file $HOME/.replyrc

script_line1 = use strict
script_line2 = use warnings
script_line3 = use 5.016003

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