Re: a bugfix for Pod::Html (in diff -u format)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perltodo.pod

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 1756e53..0dbff75 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ C<Numeric Type>, C<East Asian Width>.
 
     Case Mappings? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/
 
-lc(), uc(), lcfirst(), and ucfirst() work only for some of the
-simplest cases, where the mapping goes from a single Unicode character
-to another single Unicode character.  See lib/unicore/SpecCase.txt
-(and CaseFold.txt).
+Mostly implemented (all of 1:1, 1:N, N:1), only the "final sigma"
+and locale-specific rules of SpecCase are not implemented.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -100,7 +98,25 @@ UTF-8 identifier names should probably be canonicalized: NFC?
 
 UTF-8 in package names and sub names?  The first is problematic
 because of the mapping to pathnames, ditto for the second one if
-one does autosplitting, for example.
+one does autosplitting, for example.  Some of this works already
+in 5.8.0, but essentially it is unsupported.  Constructs to consider,
+at the very least:
+
+       use utf8;
+       package UnicodePackage;
+       sub new { bless {}, shift };
+       sub UnicodeMethod1 { ... $_[0]->UnicodeMethod2(...) ... }
+       sub UnicodeMethod2 { ... } # in here caller(0) should contain Unicode
+       ...
+       package main;
+       my $x = UnicodePackage->new;
+       print ref $x, "\n";  # should be Unicode
+       $x->UnicodeMethod1(...);
+       my $y = UnicodeMethod3 UnicodePackage ...;
+
+In the above all I<UnicodeXxx> contain (identifier-worthy) characters
+beyond the code point 255, for example 256.  Wherever package/class or
+subroutine names can be returned needs to be checked for Unicodeness.
 
 =back
 
@@ -132,11 +148,17 @@ Wait for ever.
 
 http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/msg79618.html
 
-=head2 Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like PTH
+=head2 Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like GNU pth
 
-Perhaps do yield() before blocking calls, exchange calls to non blocking
-calls specific for those libraries (for example GNUpth has a pth_sleep
-which is a non pth aware version of sleep).
+To better support nonpreemptive threading systems, perhaps some of the
+blocking functions internally in Perl should do a yield() before a
+blocking call.  (Now certain threads tests ({basic,list,thread.t})
+simply do a yield() before they sleep() to give nonpreemptive thread
+implementations a chance).
+
+In some cases, like the GNU pth, which has replacement functions that
+are nonblocking (pth_select instead of select), maybe Perl should be
+using them instead when built for threading.
 
 =head2 Typed lexicals for compiler
 
@@ -656,13 +678,13 @@ This emulation should also go near pp_sys.pp_truncate().
 
 =head2 Unicode in Filenames
 
-chdir, chmod, chown, chroot, exec, glob, link, lstat, mkdir, open, qx,
-readdir, readlink, rename, rmdir, stat, symlink, sysopen, system,
-truncate, unlink, utime.  All these could potentially accept Unicode
-filenames either as input or output (and in the case of system and qx
-Unicode in general, as input or output to/from the shell).  Whether a
-filesystem - an operating system pair understands Unicode in filenames
-varies.
+chdir, chmod, chown, chroot, exec, glob, link, lstat, mkdir, open,
+opendir, qx, readdir, readlink, rename, rmdir, stat, symlink, sysopen,
+system, truncate, unlink, utime.  All these could potentially accept
+Unicode filenames either as input or output (and in the case of system
+and qx Unicode in general, as input or output to/from the shell).
+Whether a filesystem - an operating system pair understands Unicode in
+filenames varies.
 
 Known combinations that have some level of understanding include
 Microsoft NTFS, Apple HFS+ (In Mac OS 9 and X) and Apple UFS (in Mac
@@ -788,7 +810,8 @@ http://lists.perl.org/ , http://archive.develooper.com/
 
 =head2 Bug tracking
 
-Richard Foley has written the bug tracking system at http://bugs.perl.org/
+Since 5.8.0 perl uses the RT bug tracking system from Jesse Vincent,
+implemented by Robert Spier at http://bugs.perl.org/
 
 =head2 Integrate MacPerl