Namespace cleanup
CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers
- stop malloc()/free() pollution unless asked
header-space: move into CORE/perl/
API-space: begin list of things that constitute public api
make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
_r support
cross-compilation configuring
- mmap support
POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support
Locales
- locales across packages
- decimal separator (3,1415927 is Europeanese for an approximation of pi)
+ locales across packages?
Regexen
- POSIX [:foo:] character classes
- ([=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them)
+ POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them
+ (=bar= could be done with Unicode, though)
approximate matching
Reliable Signals