Integrate with perlio. (No changes, but that's okay.)

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

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index f883067..94c4f9d 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ C<[1234567890]> aren't the only numerals any more.
 
 =head2 POSIX Unicode character classes
 
-([=a=] for equivalance classes, [.ch.] for collation.)
+(C<[=a=]> for equivalance classes, C<[.ch.]> for collation.)
 These are dependent on Unicode normalization and collation.
 
 =head2 Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Cozens has some ideas on this.
 
 =head2 DLL Versioning
 
-Windows needs a way to know what version of a XS or C<libperl> DLL it's
+Windows needs a way to know what version of an XS or C<libperl> DLL it's
 loading.
 
 =head2 Introduce @( and @)
@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround()
 (no metaconfig units yet for these).  Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(),
 fp_class_l(), (yes, both do, unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl().)
 
-As of Perl 5.6.1 is a Perl macro, Perl_isnan().
+As of Perl 5.6.1, there is a Perl macro, Perl_isnan().
 
 =head2 IV/UV preservation
 
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ mark-and-sweep GC implementation.
 
 Alan notes that: The basic idea was to extend the parser token stack
 (C<YYSTYPE>) to include a type field so we knew what sort of thing each
-element of the stack was.  The F<<perly.c> code would then have to be
+element of the stack was.  The F<perly.c> code would then have to be
 postprocessed to record the type of each entry on the stack as it was
 created, and the parser patched so that it could unroll the stack
 properly on error.
@@ -322,11 +322,11 @@ Damian Conway is planning to work on this, but it hasn't happened yet.
 
 =head2 Using POSIX calls internally
 
-When faced with a BSD vs. SySV -style interface to some library or
+When faced with a BSD vs. SysV -style interface to some library or
 system function, perl's roots show in that it typically prefers the BSD
 interface (but falls back to the SysV one).  One example is getpgrp().
 Other examples include C<memcpy> vs. C<bcopy>.  There are others, mostly in
-F<<pp_sys.c>.
+F<pp_sys.c>.
 
 Mostly, this item is a suggestion for which way to start a journey into
 an C<#ifdef> forest.  It is not primarily a suggestion to eliminate any of
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ Look at the "reification" code in C<av.c>
 
 Currently, indirect object syntax bypasses prototype checks.
 
-=head2 Install HMTL
+=head2 Install HTML
 
 HTML versions of the documentation need to be installed by default; a
 call to C<installhtml> from C<installperl> may be all that's necessary.
@@ -511,11 +511,11 @@ Hugo van der Sanden plans to look at this.
 This has been done in places, but needs a thorough code review.
 Also fchdir is available in some platforms.
 
-=head2 Make vstrings overloaded objects
+=head2 Make v-strings overloaded objects
 
-Instead of having to guess whether a string is a vstring
-and thus needs to be displayed with %vd, make vstrings (readonly)
-overloaded objects.
+Instead of having to guess whether a string is a v-string and thus
+needs to be displayed with %vd, make v-strings (readonly) objects
+(class "vstring"?) with a stringify overload.
 
 =head1 Vague ideas
 
@@ -621,11 +621,11 @@ can be found on the CPAN.
 
 =head2 gettimeofday
 
-C<Time::Hires> has been integrated into the core.
+C<Time::HiRes> has been integrated into the core.
 
 =head2 setitimer and getimiter
 
-Adding C<Time::Hires> got us this too.
+Adding C<Time::HiRes> got us this too.
 
 =head2 Testing __DIE__ hook
 
@@ -858,4 +858,10 @@ Devel::DebugInit also needs to be extended to support threads.
 See p5p archives for late May/early June 2001 for a recent discussion
 on this topic.
 
+=head2 truncate to the people
+
+One can emulate ftruncate() using F_FREESP and F_CHSIZ fcntls
+(see the UNIX FAQ for details).  This needs to go somewhere near
+pp_sys.c:pp_truncate().
+
 =cut