Modules POSIX (in progress) X/Motif/Tk etc. Tie Modules VecArray Implement array using vec() SubstrArray Implement array using substr() VirtualArray Implement array using a file ShiftSplice Defines shift et al in terms of splice method Bugs Make yyparse recursion longjmp() proof. Make "delete $array{$key} while ($key) = each %array" safe Wrong line reported for runtime elsif condition error TOOSTRICT is not too strict recv and sysread should taint Regexp extensions /m for multiline /\Afoo/ (beginning of string, or where previous g match left off) /foo\Z/ (end of string only) negative regexp assertions? /<>/x for grouping? /f for fixed variable interpolation? Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization Would be nice to have Profiler pack "(stuff)*" lexperl Bundled perl preprocessor Make $[ compile-time instead of run-time Use posix calls internally where possible const variables gettimeofday bytecompiler format BOTTOM willcall() -iprefix. -i rename file only when successfully changed All ARGV input should act like <> Multiple levels of warning .= shouldn't complain about undefined under -w report HANDLE [formats]. Pragmas ("assume" maybe?) integer, float nodebug, debug autocroak? Optimizations Optimize switch statements Optimize foreach on array Optimize foreach (1..1000000) Set KEEP on constant split Cache eval tree (unless lexical outer scope used (mark in &compiling?)) rcatmaybe Shrink opcode tables via multiple implementations selected in peep Cache hash value? Optimize away @_ where possible sfio? "one pass" global destruction Optimize sort by { $a <=> $b } Need to think more about ref function in list context Populate %SIG at startup if appropriate Vague possibilities sub mysplice(@, $, $, ...) data prettyprint function? (or is it, as I suspect, a lib routine?) Nested destructors make tr/// return histogram in list context? undef wantarray in void context Loop control on do{} et al Explicit switch statements perl to C translator multi-thread scheduling built-in globbing compile to real threaded code structured types paren counting in tokener to queue remote expectations