Re: RFC 184 (v1) Perl should support an interactive mode.

[Tom Christiansen]

>The most serious obstacle to easy interaction is the impossibility of
>typing multiple line commands to a Perl debugger (see below).

    % man perldebug
    ...
       Multiline commands
               If you want to enter a multi-line command, such as
               a subroutine definition with several statements,
               or a format, you may escape the newline that would
               normally end the debugger command with a
               backslash.  Here's an example:

                     DB<1> for (1..4) {         \
                     cont:     print "ok\n";   \
                     cont: }
                     ok
                     ok
                     ok
                     ok

               Note that this business of escaping a newline is
               specific to interactive commands typed into the
               debugger.

--tom