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doc: update REPL documentation to instantiate the REPL
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The documentation currently states that it's not intended to directly
instantiate REPL instances. It is unknown for what reason that's
recommended as it does seem a proper way to handle new REPL instances.

PR-URL: #30928
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Yongsheng Zhang <zyszys98@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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BridgeAR authored and targos committed Jan 6, 2020
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added: v0.1.91
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* `options` {Object|string} See [`repl.start()`][]
* Extends: {readline.Interface}

Instances of `repl.REPLServer` are created using the `repl.start()` method and
*should not* be created directly using the JavaScript `new` keyword.
Instances of `repl.REPLServer` are created using the [`repl.start()`][] method
or directly using the JavaScript `new` keyword.

```js
const repl = require('repl');

const options = { useColors: true };

const firstInstance = repl.start(options);
const secondInstance = new repl.REPLServer(options);
```

### Event: `'exit'`
<!-- YAML
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[`process.setUncaughtExceptionCaptureCallback()`]: process.html#process_process_setuncaughtexceptioncapturecallback_fn
[`readline.InterfaceCompleter`]: readline.html#readline_use_of_the_completer_function
[`repl.ReplServer`]: #repl_class_replserver
[`repl.start()`]: #repl_repl_start_options
[`util.inspect()`]: util.html#util_util_inspect_object_options
[curl(1)]: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html
[stream]: stream.html

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