Assuming the Apache 1.3 -D_GNU_SOURCE problem

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@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ for the real and effective uids).  Firstly, what exactly setuid() call
 gets invoked in which platform is simply a big mess that needs to be
 untangled.  Secondly, the effects are apparently not standard across
 platforms, (if you first set $< and then $>, or vice versa, being
-uid==euid== zero, or just euid==zero, or as a normal user, what are
+uid == euid == zero, or just euid == zero, or as a normal user, what are
 the results?).  The test suite not (usually) being run as root means
 that these things do not get much testing.  Thirdly, there's quite
 often a third uid called saved uid, and Perl has no knowledge of that
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ feature in any way.  (If one has the saved uid of zero, one can get
 back any real and effective uids.)  As an example, to change also the
 saved uid, one needs to set the real and effective uids B<twice>-- in
 most systems, that is: in HP-UX that doesn't seem to work.
-       
+
 =head2 Custom opcodes
 
 Have a way to introduce user-defined opcodes without the subroutine call
@@ -303,10 +303,6 @@ properly on error.
 This is possible to do, but would be pretty messy to implement, as it
 would rely on even more sed hackery in F<perly.fixer>.
 
-=head2 pack "(stuff)*"
-
-That's to say, C<pack "(sI)40"> would be the same as C<pack "sI"x40>
-
 =head2 bitfields in pack
 
 =head2 Cross compilation
@@ -529,6 +525,16 @@ 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.
 
+=head2 Allow restricted hash assignment
+
+Currently you're not allowed to assign to a restricted hash at all,
+even with the same keys.
+
+    %restricted = (foo => 42);  # error
+
+This should be allowed if the new keyset is a subset of the old
+keyset.  May require more extra code than we'd like in pp_aassign.
+
 =head1 Vague ideas
 
 Ideas which have been discussed, and which may or may not happen.
@@ -781,9 +787,11 @@ Damian Conway's text formatting modules seem to be the Way To Go.
 
 =head2 Generalised want()/caller())
 
+Robin Houston's C<Want> module does this.
+
 =head2 Named prototypes
 
-These both seem to be delayed until Perl 6.
+This seems to be delayed until Perl 6.
 
 =head2 Built-in globbing