+Bugs
+ fix small memory leaks on compile-time failures
+
+Unicode support
+ finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions
+ make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion
+ add Unicode::Map equivivalent to core
+ add support for I/O disciplines
+ - a way to specify disciplines when opening things:
+ open(F, "<:crlf :utf16", $file)
+ - a way to specify disciplines for an already opened handle:
+ binmode(STDIN, ":slurp :raw")
+ - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors:
+ use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16"
+ eliminate need for "use utf8;"
+ autoload utf8_heavy.pl's swash routines in swash_init()
+ autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser
+ check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow
+
Multi-threading
- $AUTOLOAD. Hmm.
- consistent semantics for exit/die in threads
- SvREFCNT_dec(curstack) in threadstart() in Thread.xs
- better support for externally created threads
- Thread::Pool
- spot-check globals like statcache and global GVs for thread-safety
+ support "use Thread;" under useithreads
+ add mechanism to:
+ - create new interpreter in a different thread
+ - exchange data between interpreters/threads
+ - share namespaces between interpreters/threads
+ work out consistent semantics for exit/die in threads
+ support for externally created threads?
+ Thread::Pool?
Compiler
auto-produce executable
from where newASSIGNOP steals the field)
Namespace cleanup
- CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers
- header-space: move into CORE/perl/
- API-space: begin list of things that constitute public api
-
-MULTIPLICITY support
- complete work on safe recursive interpreters, C<Perl->new()>
- revisit extra implicit arg that provides curthread/curinterp context
+ CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers when !PERL_CORE
+ header-space: move into CORE/perl/?
+ API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api
Configure
make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al)
POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support
Locales
+ deprecate traditional/legacy locales?
+ figure out how to support Unicode locales
locales across packages?
Regexen
+ make RE engine thread-safe
POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them
(=bar= could be done with Unicode, though)
approximate matching
custom opcodes
alternate runops() for signal despatch
figure out how to die() in delayed sighandler
- add tests for Thread::Signal
+ make Thread::Signal work under useithreads
Win32 stuff
- get PERL_OBJECT building under gcc
- get PERL_OBJECT building on non-win32
- automate generation of 'protected' prototypes for CPerlObj
- rename new headers to be consistent with the rest
- sort out the spawnvp() mess
+ sort out the spawnvp() mess for system('a','b','c') compatibility
work out DLL versioning
- style-check
Miscellaneous
- rename and alter ISA.pm
- magic_setisa should be made to update %FIELDS [???]
add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?)
- fix pod2html to generate relative URLs (replace with new PodtoHtml?)
+ replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN)
automate testing with large parts of CPAN
Ongoing