Devel::REPL::Plugin::MultiLine::PPI - Read lines until all blocks are closed

Author

       Shawn M Moore, "<sartak at gmail dot com>"

Copyright And License

       Copyright (C) 2007 by Shawn M Moore

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

perl v5.34.0                                       2022-06-03              Devel::REPL::P...:MultiLine::PPI(3pm)

Description

       Plugin that will collect lines until you have no unfinished structures. This lets you write subroutines,
       "if" statements, loops, etc. more naturally.

       For example, without a MultiLine plugin,

           $ my $x = 3;
           3
           $ if ($x == 3) {

       will throw a compile error, because that "if" statement is incomplete. With a MultiLine plugin,

           $ my $x = 3;
           3
           $ if ($x == 3) {

           > print "OH NOES!"

           > }
           OH NOES
           1

       you may write the code across multiple lines, such as in "irb" and "python".

       This module uses PPI. This plugin is named "MultiLine::PPI" because someone else may conceivably
       implement similar behavior some other less dependency-heavy way.

Name

       Devel::REPL::Plugin::MultiLine::PPI - Read lines until all blocks are closed

Support

       Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Devel-REPL> (or bug-Devel-REPL@rt.cpan.org
       <mailto:bug-Devel-REPL@rt.cpan.org>).

       There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at "#devel" on "irc.perl.org"
       <irc://irc.perl.org/#devel-repl>.

Synopsis

           use Devel::REPL;

           my $repl = Devel::REPL->new;
           $repl->load_plugin('LexEnv');
           $repl->load_plugin('History');
           $repl->load_plugin('MultiLine::PPI');
           $repl->run;