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1 perry 1 PERLTODO
2 !!!PERLTODO
3 NAME
4 DESCRIPTION
5 Infrastructure
6 Configure
7 Perl Language
8 Perl Internals
9 Documentation
10 Modules
11 Tom's Wishes
12 Win32 Stuff
13 Would be nice to have
14 Possible pragmas
15 Optimizations
16 Vague possibilities
17 To Do Or Not To Do
18 Threading
19 Compiler
20 Recently Finished Tasks
21 ----
22 !!NAME
23
24
25 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
26 !!DESCRIPTION
27
28
29 This is a list of wishes for Perl. It is maintained by
30 Nathan Torkington for the Perl porters. Send updates to
31 ''perl5-porters@perl.org''. If you want to work on any of
32 these projects, be sure to check the perl5-porters archives
33 for past ideas, flames, and propaganda. This will save you
34 time and also prevent you from implementing something that
35 Larry has already vetoed. One set of archives may be found
36 at:
37
38
39 http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
40 !!Infrastructure
41
42
43 __Mailing list archives__
44
45
46 Chaim suggests contacting egroup and asking them to archive
47 the other perl.org mailing lists. Probably not advocacy, but
48 definitely perl6-porters, etc.
49
50
51 __Bug tracking system__
52
53
54 Richard Foley ''richard@perl.org'' is writing one. We
55 looked at several, like gnats and the Debian system, but at
56 the time we investigated them, none met our needs. Since
57 then, Jitterbug has matured, and may be worth
58 reinvestigation.
59
60
61 The system we've developed is the recipient of perlbug mail,
62 and any followups it generates from perl5-porters. New bugs
63 are entered into a mysql database, and sent on to
64 perl5-porters with the subject line rewritten to include a
65 ``ticket number'' (unique ID for the new
66 bug). If the incoming message already had a ticket number in
67 the subject line, then the message is logged against that
68 bug. There is a separate email interface (not forwarding to
69 p5p) that permits porters to claim, categorize, and close
70 tickets.
71
72
73 There is also a web interface to the system at
74 http://bugs.perl.org.
75
76
77 The current delay in implementation is caused by perl.org
78 lockups. One suspect is the mail handling system, possibly
79 going into loops.
80
81
82 We still desperately need a bugmaster, someone who will look
83 at every new ``bug'' and kill those that we already know
84 about, those that are not bugs at all, etc.
85
86
87 __Regression Tests__
88
89
90 The test suite for Perl serves two needs: ensuring features
91 work, and ensuring old bugs have not been reintroduced. Both
92 need work.
93
94
2 perry 95 Brent !LaVelle (lavelle@metronet.com) has stepped forward to
1 perry 96 work on performance tests and improving the size of the test
97 suite.
98
99
100 Coverage
101
102
103 Do the tests that come with Perl exercise every line (or
104 every block, or ...) of the Perl interpreter, and if not
105 then how can we make them do so?
106
107
108 Regression
109
110
111 No bug fixes should be made without a corresponding
112 testsuite addition. This needs a dedicated enforcer, as the
113 current pumpking is either too lazy or too stupid or both
114 and lets enforcement wander all over the map.
115 :-)
116
117
118 __DIE__
119
120
121 Tests that fail need to be of a form that can be readily
122 mailed to perlbug and diagnosed with minimal
123 back-and-forth's to determine which test failed, due to what
124 cause, etc.
125
126
127 suidperl
128
129
130 We need regression/sanity tests for suidperl
131
132
133 The 25% slowdown from perl4 to perl5
134
135
136 This value may or may not be accurate, but it certainly is
137 eye-catching. For some things perl5 is faster than perl4,
138 but often the reliability and extensibility have come at a
139 cost of speed. The benchmark suite that Gisle released
140 earlier has been hailed as both a fantastic solution and as
141 a source of entirely meaningless figures. Do we need to test
142 ``real applications''? Can you do so? Anyone have machines
143 to dedicate to the task? Identify the things that have grown
144 slower, and see if there's a way to make them
145 faster.
146 !!Configure
147
148
149 Andy Dougherty maintain(eds) a list of ``todo'' items for
150 the configure that comes with Perl. See Porting/pumpkin.pod
151 in the latest source release.
152
153
154 __Install HTML__
155
156
157 Have ``make install'' give you the option to install
158 HTML as well. This would be part of
159 Configure. Andy Wardley (certified Perl studmuffin) will
160 look into the current problems of HTML
161 installation--is 'installhtml' preventing this from
162 happening cleanly, or is pod2html the problem? If the
163 latter, Brad Appleton's pod work may fix the problem for
164 free.
165 !!Perl Language
166
167
168 __64-bit Perl__
169
170
171 Verify complete 64 bit support so that the value of sysseek,
172 or -s, or ''stat()'', or tell can fit into a
173 perl number without losing precision. Work with the
174 perl-64bit mailing list on perl.org.
175
176
177 __Prototypes__
178
179
180 Named prototypes
181
182
183 Add proper named prototypes that actually work
184 usefully.
185
186
187 Indirect objects
188
189
190 Fix prototype bug that forgets indirect
191 objects.
192
193
194 Method calls
195
196
197 Prototypes for method calls.
198
199
200 Context
201
202
203 Return context prototype declarations.
204
205
206 Scoped subs
207
208
209 lexically-scoped subs, e.g. my sub
210 !!Perl Internals
211
212
213 __magic_setisa__
214
215
216 magic_setisa should be made to update
217 %FIELDS [[???]
218
219
220 __Garbage Collection__
221
222
223 There was talk of a mark-and-sweep garbage collector at
224 TPC2 , but the (to users) unpredictable
225 nature of its behaviour put some off. Sarathy, I believe,
226 did the work. Here's what he has to say:
227
228
229 Yeah, I hope to implement it someday too. The points that
230 were raised in TPC2 were all to do with
231 calling ''DESTROY ()'' methods, but I
232 think we can accommodate that by extending ''bless()'' to
233 stash extra information for objects so we track their
234 lifetime accurately for those that want their
235 ''DESTROY ()'' to be predictable (this
236 will be a speed hit, naturally, and will therefore be
237 optional, naturally. :)
238
239
240 [[N.B. Don't even ask me about this now! When I have the time
241 to write a cogent summary, I'll post it.]
242
243
244 __Reliable signals__
245
246
247 Sarathy and Dan Sugalski are working on this. Chip posted a
248 patch earlier, but it was not accepted into 5.005. The issue
249 is tricky, because it has the potential to greatly slow down
250 the core.
251
252
253 There are at least three things to consider:
254
255
256 Alternate ''runops()'' for signal despatch
257
258
259 Sarathy and Dan are discussed this on
260 perl5-porters.
261
262
263 Figure out how to ''die()'' in delayed
264 sighandler
265
266
267 Add tests for Thread::Signal
268
269
270 Automatic tests against CPAN
271
272
273 Is there some way to automatically build all/most of
274 CPAN with the new Perl and check that the
275 modules there pass all the tests?
276
277
278 __Interpolated regex performance bugs__
279
280
281 while (
282 The qr// syntax added in 5.005 has solved this problem, but it needs more thorough documentation.
283
284
285 __Memory leaks from failed eval/regcomp__
286
287
288 The only known memory leaks in Perl are in failed code or
289 regexp compilation. Fix this. Hugo Van Der Sanden will
290 attempt this but won't have tuits until January
291 1999.
292
293
294 __Make XS easier to use__
295
296
297 There was interest in SWIG from porters, but
298 nothing has happened lately.
299
300
301 __Make embedded Perl easier to use__
302
303
304 This is probably difficult for the same reasons that ``
305 XS For Dummies'' will be
306 difficult.
307
308
309 __Namespace cleanup__
310
311
312 CPP-space: restrict CPP symbols exported from headers
313 header-space: move into CORE/perl/
314 API-space: begin list of things that constitute public api
315 env-space: Configure should use PERL_CONFIG instead of CONFIG etc.
316
317
318 __MULTIPLICITY__
319
320
321 Complete work on safe recursive interpreters
322 Perl-. Sarathy says that a reference
323 implementation exists.
324
325
2 perry 326 __!MacPerl__
1 perry 327
328
329 Chris Nandor and Matthias Neeracher are working on better
2 perry 330 integrating !MacPerl into the Perl distribution.
1 perry 331 !!Documentation
332
333
334 There's a lot of documentation that comes with Perl. The
335 quantity of documentation makes it difficult for users to
336 know which section of which manpage to read in order to
337 solve their problem. Tom Christiansen has done much of the
338 documentation work in the past.
339
340
341 __A clear division into tutorial and
342 reference__
343
344
345 Some manpages (e.g., perltoot and perlreftut) clearly set
346 out to educate the reader about a subject. Other manpages
347 (e.g., perlsub) are references for which there is no
348 tutorial, or are references with a slight tutorial bent. If
349 things are either tutorial or reference, then the reader
350 knows which manpage to read to learn about a subject, and
351 which manpage to read to learn all about an aspect of that
352 subject. Part of the solution to this is:
353
354
355 __Remove the artificial distinction between operators and
356 functions__
357
358
359 History shows us that users, and often porters, aren't clear
360 on the operator-function distinction. The present split in
361 reference material between perlfunc and perlop hinders user
362 navigation. Given that perlfunc is by far the larger of the
363 two, move operator reference into perlfunc.
364
365
366 __More tutorials__
367
368
369 More documents of a tutorial nature could help. Here are
370 some candidates:
371
372
373 Regular expressions
374
375
376 Robin Berjon (r.berjon@ltconsulting.net) has
377 volunteered.
378
379
380 I/O
381
382
383 Mark-Jason Dominus (mjd@plover.com) has an outline for
384 perliotut.
385
386
387 pack/unpack
388
389
390 This is badly needed. There has been some discussion on the
391 subject on perl5-porters.
392
393
394 Debugging
395
396
397 Ronald Kimball (rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu) has
398 volunteered.
399
400
401 __Include a search tool__
402
403
404 perldoc should be able to 'grep' fulltext indices of
405 installed POD files. This would let people
406 say:
407
408
409 perldoc -find printing numbers with commas
410 and get back the perlfaq entry on 'commify'.
411
412
413 This solution, however, requires documentation to contain
414 the keywords the user is searching for. Even when the users
415 know what they're looking for, often they can't spell
416 it.
417
418
419 __Include a locate tool__
420
421
422 perldoc should be able to help people find the manpages on a
423 particular high-level subject:
424
425
426 perldoc -find web
427 would tell them manpages, web pages, and books with material on web programming. Similarly perldoc -find databases, perldoc -find references and so on.
428
429
430 We need something in the vicinity of:
431
432
433 % perl -help random stuff
434 No documentation for perl function `random stuff' found
435 The following entry in perlfunc.pod matches /random/a:
436 =item rand EXPR
437 =item rand
438 Returns a random fractional number greater than or equal to C
439 (Note: If your rand function consistently returns numbers that are too
440 large or too small, then your version of Perl was probably compiled
441 with the wrong number of RANDBITS.)
442 The following pod pages seem to have /stuff/a:
443 perlfunc.pod (7 hits)
444 perlfaq7.pod (6 hits)
445 perlmod.pod (4 hits)
446 perlsyn.pod (3 hits)
447 perlfaq8.pod (2 hits)
448 perlipc.pod (2 hits)
449 perl5004delta.pod (1 hit)
450 perl5005delta.pod (1 hit)
451 perlcall.pod (1 hit)
452 perldelta.pod (1 hit)
453 perlfaq3.pod (1 hit)
454 perlfaq5.pod (1 hit)
455 perlhist.pod (1 hit)
456 perlref.pod (1 hit)
457 perltoc.pod (1 hit)
458 perltrap.pod (1 hit)
459 Proceed to open perlfunc.pod? [[y] n
460 Do you want to speak perl interactively? [[y] n
461 Should I dial 911? [[y] n
462 Do you need psychiatric help? [[y] y
463
464
465 __Separate function manpages by default__
466
467
468 Perl should install 'manpages' for every function/operator
469 into the 3pl or 3p manual section. By default. The splitman
470 program in the Perl source distribution does the work of
471 turning big perlfunc into little 3p pages.
472
473
474 __Users can't find the manpages__
475
476
477 Make perldoc tell users what they need to add to
478 their .login or .cshrc to set their MANPATH
479 correctly.
480
481
482 __Install ALL Documentation__
483
484
485 Make the standard documentation kit include the
486 VMS , OS/2 , Win32, Threads,
487 etc information. installperl and pod/Makefile should know
488 enough to copy README .foo to perlfoo.pod
489 before building everything, when appropriate.
490
491
492 __Outstanding issues to be documented__
493
494
495 Tom has a list of 5.005_5* features or changes that require
496 documentation.
497
498
499 Create one document that coherently explains the delta
500 between the last camel release and the current release.
501 perldelta was supposed to be that, but no longer. The things
502 in perldelta never seemed to get placed in the right places
503 in the real manpages, either. This needs work.
504
505
506 __Adapt www.linuxhq.com for Perl__
507
508
509 This should help glorify documentation and get more people
510 involved in perl development.
511
512
513 __Replace man with a perl program__
514
515
516 Can we reimplement man in Perl? Tom has a start. I believe
517 some of the Linux systems distribute a manalike.
518 Alternatively, build on perldoc to remove the unfeatures
519 like ``is slow'' and ``has no apropos''.
520
521
522 __Unicode tutorial__
523
524
525 We could use more work on helping people understand Perl's
526 new Unicode support that Larry has created.
527 !!Modules
528
529
530 __Update the POSIX extension to conform with
531 the POSIX 1003.1 Edition 2__
532
533
534 The current state of the POSIX extension is
535 as of Edition 1, 1991, whereas the Edition 2 came out in
536 1996. ISO/IEC 9945:1-1996(E),
537 ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1, 1996 Edition.
538 ISBN 1-55937-573-6. The updates were legion:
539 threads, IPC , and real time
540 extensions.
541
542
543 __Module versions__
544
545
546 Automate the checking of versions in the standard
547 distribution so it's easy for a pumpking to check whether
548 CPAN has a newer version that we should be
549 including?
550
551
552 __New modules__
553
554
555 Which modules should be added to the standard distribution?
556 This ties in with the SDK discussed on the
557 perl-sdk list at perl.org.
558
559
560 __Profiler__
561
562
563 Make the profiler (Devel::DProf) part of the standard
564 release, and document it well.
565
566
567 __Tie Modules__
568
569
2 perry 570 !VecArray
1 perry 571
572
573 Implement array using ''vec()''. Nathan Torkington has
574 working code to do this.
575
576
2 perry 577 !SubstrArray
1 perry 578
579
580 Implement array using ''substr()''
581
582
2 perry 583 !VirtualArray
1 perry 584
585
586 Implement array using a file
587
588
2 perry 589 !ShiftSplice
1 perry 590
591
592 Defines shift et al in terms of splice method
593
594
595 __Procedural options__
596
597
598 Support procedural interfaces for the common cases of Perl's
599 gratuitously OOO modules. Tom objects to
600 ``use IO::File'' reading many thousands of lines of
601 code.
602
603
604 __RPC__
605
606
607 Write a module for transparent, portable remote procedure
608 calls. (Not core). This touches on the CORBA
609 and ILU work.
610
611
612 __y2k localtime/gmtime__
613
614
615 Write a module, Y2k::Catch, which overloads localtime and
616 gmtime's returned year value and catches ``bad'' attempts to
617 use it.
618
619
620 __Export File::Find variables__
621
622
623 Make File::Find export $name etc manually, at least
624 if asked to.
625
626
627 __Ioctl__
628
629
630 Finish a proper Ioctl module.
631
632
633 __Debugger attach/detach__
634
635
636 Permit a user to debug an already-running
637 program.
638
639
640 __Regular Expression debugger__
641
642
643 Create a visual profiler/debugger tool that stepped you
644 through the execution of a regular expression point by
645 point. Ilya has a module to color-code and display regular
646 expression parses and executions. There's something at
647 http://tkworld.org/ that might be a good start, it's a
648 Tk/Tcl RE wizard, that builds regexen of many
649 flavours.
650
651
652 __Alternative RE Syntax__
653
654
655 Make an alternative regular expression syntax that is
656 accessed through a module. For instance,
657
658
659 use RE;
660 $re = start_of_line()
661 -
662 if (/$re/) {
663 print
664 Newbies to regular expressions typically only use a subset of the full language. Perhaps you wouldn't have to implement the full feature set.
665
666
667 __Bundled modules__
668
669
670 Nicholas Clark (nick@flirble.org) had a patch for storing
671 modules in zipped format. This needs exploring and
672 concluding.
673
674
675 __Expect__
676
677
678 Adopt IO::Tty, make it as portable as Don Libes' ``expect''
679 (can we link against expect code?), and perfect a Perl
680 version of expect. IO::Tty and expect could then be
681 distributed as part of the core distribution, replacing
682 Comm.pl and other hacks.
683
684
685 __GUI::Native__
686
687
688 A simple-to-use interface to native graphical abilities
689 would be welcomed. Oh, Perl's access Tk is nice enough, and
690 reasonably portable, but it's not particularly as fast as
691 one would like. Simple access to the mouse's cut buffer or
692 mouse-presses shouldn't required loading a few terabytes of
693 Tk code.
694
695
696 __Update semibroken auxiliary tools; h2ph, a2p,
697 etc.__
698
699
700 Kurt Starsinic is working on h2ph. mjd has fixed bugs in a2p
701 in the past. a2p apparently doesn't work on nawk and gawk
702 extensions. Graham Barr has an Include module that does h2ph
703 work at runtime.
704
705
706 __pod2html__
707
708
709 A short-term fix: pod2html generates absolute
710 HTML links. Make it generate relative
711 links.
712
713
714 __Podchecker__
715
716
717 Something like lint for Pod would be good. Something that
718 catches common errors as well as gross ones. Brad Appleton
2 perry 719 is putting together something as part of his !PodParser
1 perry 720 work.
721 !!Tom's Wishes
722
723
724 __Webperl__
725
726
727 Design a webperl environment that's as tightly integrated
728 and as easy-to-use as Perl's current command-line
729 environment.
730
731
732 __Mobile agents__
733
734
735 More work on a safe and secure execution environment for
736 mobile agents would be neat; the Safe.pm module is a start,
737 but there's a still a lot to be done in that area. Adopt
738 Penguin?
739
740
741 __POSIX on non-POSIX__
742
743
744 Standard programming constructs for non-POSIX systems would
745 help a lot of programmers stuck on primitive, legacy
746 systems. For example, Microsoft still hasn't made a usable
747 POSIX interface on their clunky systems,
748 which means that standard operations such as ''alarm()''
749 and ''fork()'', both critical for sophisticated
750 client-server programming, must both be kludged
751 around.
752
753
754 I'm unsure whether Tom means to emulate alarm( )and
755 ''fork()'', or merely to provide a document like
756 perlport.pod to say which features are portable and which
757 are not.
758
759
760 __Portable installations__
761
762
763 Figure out a portable semi-gelled installation, that is, one
764 without full paths. Larry has said that he's thinking about
765 this. Ilya pointed out that ''perllib_mangle()'' is good
766 for this.
767 !!Win32 Stuff
768
769
770 __Rename new headers to be consistent with the
771 rest__
772
773
774 __Sort out the__ ''spawnvp()''
775 __mess__
776
777
778 __Work out DLL versioning__
779
780
781 __Style-check__
782 !!Would be nice to have
783
784
785 pack ``(stuff)*''
786
787
788 Contiguous bitfields in pack/unpack
789
790
791 lexperl
792
793
794 Bundled perl preprocessor
795
796
797 Use posix calls internally where possible
798
799
800 format BOTTOM
801
802
803 -i rename file only when successfully changed
804
805
806 All ARGV input should act like
807
808
809 report HANDLE [[formats].
810
811
812 support in perlmain to rerun debugger
813
814
815 lvalue functions
816
817
818 Tuomas Lukka, on behalf of the PDL project,
819 greatly desires this and Ilya has a patch for it (probably
820 against an older version of Perl). Tuomas points out that
821 what PDL really wants is lvalue
822 ''methods'', not just subs.
823 !!Possible pragmas
824
825
826 (use less memory, CPU )
827 !!Optimizations
828
829
830 __constant function cache__
831
832
833 __foreach(reverse...)__
834
835
836 __Cache eval tree__
837
838
839 Unless lexical outer scope used (mark in
840
841
842 __rcatmaybe__
843
844
845 __Shrink opcode tables__
846
847
848 Via multiple implementations selected in peep.
849
850
851 __Cache hash value__
852
853
854 Not a win, according to Guido.
855
856
857 __Optimize away__ @_ __where
858 possible__
859
860
861 __Optimize sort by {__ $a ____
862 $b __}__
863
864
865 Greg Bacon added several more sort optimizations. These have
866 made it into 5.005_55, thanks to Hans Mulder.
867
868
869 __Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated
870 optimization__
871
872
873 The regexp parser was rewritten for 5.005. Ilya's the regexp
874 guru.
875 !!Vague possibilities
876
877
878 ref function in list context
879
880
881 This seems impossible to do without substantially breaking
882 code.
883
884
885 make tr/// return histogram in list context?
886
887
888 Loop control on do{} et al
889
890
891 Explicit switch statements
892
893
894 Nobody has yet managed to come up with a switch syntax that
895 would allow for mixed hash, constant, regexp checks. Submit
896 implementation with syntax, please.
897
898
899 compile to real threaded code
900
901
902 structured types
903
904
905 Modifiable $1 et al
906
907
908 The intent is for this to be a means of editing the matched
909 portions of the target string.
910 !!To Do Or Not To Do
911
912
913 These are things that have been discussed in the past and
914 roundly criticized for being of questionable
915 value.
916
917
918 __Making__ ''my()'' __work on ``package''
919 variables__
920
921
922 Being able to say my($Foo::Bar), something that sounds
923 ludicrous and the 5.6 pumpking has mocked.
924
925
926 __``or'' testing defined not truth__
927
928
929 We tell people that can be used to give a default value to a
930 variable:
931
932
933 $children = shift 5; # default is 5 children
934 which is almost (but not):
935
936
937 $children = shift;
938 $children = 5 unless $children;
939 but if the first argument was given and is ``0'', then it will be considered false by and 5 used instead. Really we want an -like operator that behaves like:
940
941
942 $children = shift;
943 $children = 5 unless defined $children;
944 Namely, a that tests defined-ness rather than truth. One was discussed, and a patch submitted, but the objections were many. While there were objections, many still feel the need. At least it was decided that ?? is the best name for the operator.
945
946
947 __``dynamic'' lexicals__
948
949
950 my $x;
951 sub foo {
952 local $x;
953 }
954 Localizing, as Tim Bunce points out, is a separate concept from whether the variable is global or lexical. Chip Salzenberg had an implementation once, but Larry thought it had potential to confuse.
955
956
957 __``class''-based, rather than package-based
958 ``lexicals''__
959
960
961 This is like what the Alias module provides, but the
962 variables would be lexicals reserved by perl at
963 compile-time, which really are indices pointing into the
964 pseudo-hash object visible inside every method so
965 declared.
966 !!Threading
967
968
969 __Modules__
970
971
972 Which of the standard modules are thread-safe? Which
973 CPAN modules? How easy is it to fix those
974 non-safe modules?
975
976
977 __Testing__
978
979
980 Threading is still experimental. Every reproducible bug
981 identifies something else for us to fix. Find and submit
982 more of these problems.
983
984
985 __$AUTOLOAD__
986
987
988 __exit/die__
989
990
991 Consistent semantics for exit/die in threads.
992
993
994 __External threads__
995
996
997 Better support for externally created threads.
998
999
1000 __Thread::Pool__
1001
1002
1003 __thread-safety__
1004
1005
1006 Spot-check globals like statcache and global GVs for
1007 thread-safety. Part done__
1008 __
1009
1010
1011 __Per-thread GVs__
1012
1013
1014 According to Sarathy, this would make @_ be the
1015 same in threaded and non-threaded, as well as helping solve
1016 problems like filehandles (the same filehandle currently
1017 cannot be used in two threads).
1018 !!Compiler
1019
1020
1021 __Optimization__
1022
1023
1024 The compiler's back-end code-generators for creating
1025 bytecode or compilable C code could use optimization
1026 work.
1027
1028
1029 __Byteperl__
1030
1031
1032 Figure out how and where byteperl will be built for the
1033 various platforms.
1034
1035
1036 __Precompiled modules__
1037
1038
1039 Save byte-compiled modules on disk.
1040
1041
1042 __Executables__
1043
1044
1045 Auto-produce executable.
1046
1047
1048 __Typed lexicals__
1049
1050
1051 Typed lexicals should affect B::CC::load_pad.
1052
1053
1054 __Win32__
1055
1056
1057 Workarounds to help Win32 dynamic loading.
1058
1059
1060 __END blocks__
1061
1062
1063 END blocks need saving in compiled output,
1064 now that CHECK blocks are
1065 available.
1066
1067
1068 ___AUTOLOAD__
1069
1070
1071 _AUTOLOAD prodding.
1072
1073
1074 __comppadlist__
1075
1076
1077 Fix comppadlist (names in comppad_name can have fake SvCUR
1078 from where newASSIGNOP steals the field).
1079
1080
1081 __Cached compilation__
1082
1083
1084 Can we install modules as bytecode?
1085 !!Recently Finished Tasks
1086
1087
1088 __Figure a way out of $^(capital letter)__
1089
1090
1091 Figure out a clean way to extend $^(capital letter) beyond
1092 the 26 alphabets. (${^WORD} maybe?)
1093
1094
1095 Mark-Jason Dominus sent a patch which went into
1096 5.005_56.
1097
1098
1099 __Filenames__
1100
1101
1102 Keep filenames in the distribution and in the standard
1103 module set be 8.3 friendly where feasible. Good luck
1104 changing the standard modules, though.
1105
1106
1107 __Foreign lines__
1108
1109
1110 Perl should be more generous in accepting foreign line
1111 terminations. Mostly __done__ in 5.005.
1112
1113
1114 __Namespace cleanup__
1115
1116
1117 symbol-space:
1118 CPP-space: stop malloc()/free() pollution unless asked
1119
1120
1121 __ISA .pm__
1122
1123
1124 Rename and alter ISA .pm. __Done__. It is
1125 now base.pm.
1126
1127
1128 __gettimeofday__
1129
1130
2 perry 1131 See Time::!HiRes.
1 perry 1132
1133
1134 __autocroak?__
1135
1136
1137 This is the Fatal.pm module, so any builtin that does not
1138 return success automatically ''die()''s. If you're
1139 feeling brave, tie this in with the unified exceptions
1140 scheme.
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