It would be good to teach C<embed.pl> to understand the conditional
compilation, and hence remove the duplication, and the mistakes it has caused.
+=head2 use strict; and AutoLoad
+
+Currently if you write
+
+ package Whack;
+ use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';
+ use strict;
+ 1;
+ __END__
+ sub bloop {
+ print join (' ', No, strict, here), "!\n";
+ }
+
+then C<use strict;> isn't in force within the autoloaded subroutines. It would
+be more consistent (and less surprising) to arrange for all lexical pragmas
+in force at the __END__ block to be in force within each autoloaded subroutine.
+
=head1 Tasks that need a little sysadmin-type knowledge
Or if you prefer, tasks that you would learn from, and broaden your skills
Currently the %ENV entries are always byte strings.
+=head2 Unicode and glob()
+
+Currently glob patterns and filenames returned from File::Glob::glob()
+are always byte strings.
+
=head2 use less 'memory'
Investigate trade offs to switch out perl's choices on memory usage.
opendir(), closedir(), seekdir(), rewinddir(), glob(); symlink(),
readlink().
+=head2 -C on the #! line
+
+It should be possible to make -C work correctly if found on the #! line,
+given that all perl command line options are strict ASCII, and -C changes
+only the interpretation of non-ASCII characters, and not for the script file
+handle. To make it work needs some investigation of the ordering of function
+calls during startup, and (by implication) a bit of tweaking of that order.
+
+
=head1 Tasks that need a knowledge of the interpreter
These tasks would need C knowledge, and knowledge of how the interpreter works,
Allow to delete functions. One can already undef them, but they're still
in the stash.
+=head2 C</w> regex modifier
+
+That flag would enable to match whole words, and also to interpolate
+arrays as alternations. With it, C</P/w> would be roughly equivalent to:
+
+ do { local $"='|'; /\b(?:P)\b/ }
+
+See L<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-01/msg00400.html>
+for the discussion.
+
=head2 optional optimizer
Make the peephole optimizer optional. Currently it performs two tasks as
tokeniser ignores the UTF-8-ness of C<PL_rsfp>, or any SVs returned from
source filters. All this could be fixed.
+=head2 The yada yada yada operators
+
+Perl 6's Synopsis 3 says:
+
+I<The ... operator is the "yada, yada, yada" list operator, which is used as
+the body in function prototypes. It complains bitterly (by calling fail)
+if it is ever executed. Variant ??? calls warn, and !!! calls die.>
+
+Those would be nice to add to Perl 5. That could be done without new ops.
+
=head1 Big projects
Tasks that will get your name mentioned in the description of the "Highlights
One bit would be to write the missing code in sv.c:Perl_dirp_dup.
+Fix Perl_sv_dup, et al so that threads can return objects.
+
=head2 iCOW
Sarathy and Arthur have a proposal for an improved Copy On Write which
Apparently these are quite useful. Anyway, Jeffery Friedl wants them.
demerphq has this on his todo list, but right at the bottom.
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