Rephrase "Perl Home Page" References

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

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 6698b8d..23fd3f5 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ it would be a good thing.
 
 Fix (or rewrite) the implementation of the C</(?{...})/> closures.
 
+=head1 A re-entrant regexp engine
+
+This will allow the use of a regex from inside (?{ }), (??{ }) and
+(?(?{ })|) constructs.
+
 =head1 pragmata
 
 =head2 lexical pragmas
@@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ Make the peephole optimizer optional.
 
 =head2 You WANT *how* many
 
-Currently contexts are void, scalar and list. sort has a special mechanism in
+Currently contexts are void, scalar and list. split has a special mechanism in
 place to pass in the number of return values wanted. It would be useful to
 have a general mechanism for this, backwards compatible and little speed hit.
 This would allow proposals such as short circuiting sort to be implemented
@@ -179,11 +184,6 @@ Clean these up. Move them to mathom.c, and don't compile for blead?
 The old perltodo notes "This has been done in places, but needs a thorough
 code review. Also fchdir is available in some platforms."
 
-=head2 foreach reverse
-
-The old perltodo notes that we could optimise foreach to iterate in reverse.
-(instead of making a reversed copy on the stack)
-
 =head1 Tests
 
 =head2 Make Schwern poorer
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ for example POSIX passes Exporter some very memory hungry data structures.
 
 =head2 Optimize away @_
 
-The old perltodo notes "Look at the "reification" code in C<av.c>"
+The old perltodo notes "Look at the "reification" code in C<av.c>".
 
 =head2 switch ops
 
@@ -297,3 +297,9 @@ be useful to have a reasonable general benchmarking suite that roughly
 represented what current perl programs do, and measurably reported whether
 tweaks to the core improve, degrade or don't really affect performance, to
 guide people attempting to optimise the guts of perl.
+
+=head2 readpipe(LIST)
+
+system() accepts a LIST syntax (and a PROGRAM LIST syntax) to avoid
+running a shell. readpipe() (the function behind qx//) could be similarly
+extended.