Pluggable optimizer

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

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index dab73b9..3c72432 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ always be set to true, but it needs to be set to false when F<utf8.pm>
 is being compiled. (To stop Perl trying to autoload the C<utf8>
 pragma...)
 
-=head2 Create a char *sv_printify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
+=head2 Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
 
 For displaying PVs with control characters, embedded nulls, and Unicode.
 This would be useful for printing warnings, or data and regex dumping,
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ Simon Cozens promises to work on this.
 
 =head2 Unicode regular expression character classes
 
-They have some tricks Perl doesn't yet implement.
+They have some tricks Perl doesn't yet implement like character
+class subtraction.
 
        http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/
 
@@ -328,6 +329,12 @@ has changed. Detecting a change is perhaps the difficult bit.
 
 There should be a way of restarting the debugger on demand.
 
+=head2 Test Suite for the Debugger
+
+The debugger is a complex piece of software and fixing something
+here may inadvertently break something else over there.  To tame
+this chaotic behaviour, a test suite is necessary. 
+
 =head2 my sub foo { }
 
 The basic principle is sound, but there are problems with the semantics