In csh-influenced shells, you have access to the command history in a way that lets you say "insert the third argument from the fourth previous command here". In Lisp, you have the * variables with the result of recent exppressions I think both of these capabilities are very valuable in an interactive programming environment. Anything like that planned for Perl6?
I'm envisioning a global variable like @HISTORY, where either @HISTORY[0] or @HISTORY[*] would be the most recent command, @HISTORY[1] or @HISTORY[*-1] the next, etc, and each entry would be an object containing both the expression evaluated and the result of that expression... Without bikeshedding the details, does this seem like something worth including in the language, or something that would better be provided by a tool external to the language itself? -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com>
