is being compiled. (To stop Perl trying to autoload the C<utf8>
pragma...)
+=head2 Create a char *sv_printify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags) function
+
+For displaying PVs with control characters, embedded nulls, and Unicode.
+This would be useful for printing warnings, or data and regex dumping,
+not_a_number(), and so on.
+
=head2 Autoload byte.pm
When the lexer sees, for instance, C<bytes::length>, it should
Artur Bergman's C<iThreads> module is a start on this, but needs to
be more mature.
+=head2 make perl_clone optionally clone ops
+
+So that pseudoforking, mod_perl, iThreads and nvi will work properly
+(but not as efficiently) until the regex engine is fixed to be threadsafe.
+
=head2 Work out exit/die semantics for threads
=head2 Typed lexicals for compiler
C<goto &whoami> introduces a performance penalty, so maybe there should
be a way to do this after all: C<sub foo {START: ... goto START;> is
better.)
+
+=head2 Make "use utf8" the default
+
+There is a patch available for this, search p5p archives for
+the Subject "[EXPERIMENTAL PATCH] make unicode (utf8) default"
+but this would be unacceptable because of backward compatibility:
+scripts could not contain B<any legacy eight-bit data>. Also would
+introduce a measurable slowdown of at least few percentages since all
+regular expression operations would be done in full UTF-8.
+