2 fix small memory leaks on compile-time failures
5 finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
6 make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
7 add Unicode::Map equivivalent to core
8 add support for I/O disciplines
9 - a way to specify disciplines when opening things:
10 open(F, "<:crlf :utf16", $file)
11 - a way to specify disciplines for an already opened handle:
12 binmode(STDIN, ":slurp :raw")
13 - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors:
14 use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16"
15 eliminate need for "use utf8;"
16 autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init()
17 autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser
18 check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow
21 support "use Thread;" under useithreads
23 - create new interpreter in a different thread
24 - exchange data between interpreters/threads
25 - share namespaces between interpreters/threads
26 work out consistent semantics for exit/die in threads
27 support for externally created threads?
31 auto-produce executable
32 typed lexicals should affect B::CC::load_pad
33 workarounds to help Win32
34 END blocks need saving in compiled output
36 fix comppadlist (names in comppad_name can have fake SvCUR
37 from where newASSIGNOP steals the field)
40 CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers when !PERL_CORE
41 header-space: move into CORE/perl/?
42 API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api
45 make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
47 cross-compilation configuring
48 POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support
51 deprecate traditional/legacy locales?
52 figure out how to support Unicode locales
53 locales across packages?
56 make RE engine thread-safe
57 POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them
58 (=bar= could be done with Unicode, though, see TR about normalization forms)
62 use fchown, fchmod (and futimes?) internally when possible
63 use fchdir(how portable?)
67 alternate runops() for signal despatch
68 figure out how to die() in delayed sighandler
69 make Thread::Signal work under useithreads
72 sort out the spawnvp() mess for system('a','b','c') compatibility
73 work out DLL versioning
76 add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
77 sub-second sleep? (integrate Time::HiRes?)
78 floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc
79 replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
80 automate testing with large parts of CPAN
84 keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible
85 upgrade to newer versions of all independently maintained modules
86 comprehensive perldelta.pod
89 describe new age patterns
90 update perl{guts,call,embed,xs} with additions, changes to API
91 convert more examples to use autovivified filehandles
92 document Win32 choices
93 spot-check all new modules for completeness
94 better docs for pack()/unpack()
95 reorg tutorials vs. reference sections