X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperltodo.pod;h=3882498750a96b5e818cbc49a4c655eb47d1cc3c;hb=899e16d05655bc0e6756c741b6155de313fa3bd4;hp=8c94a29c9a8ce236091b49047ed1ef90a9cfc129;hpb=cbb3fa723f207c2682ac39fe6db5bab0af992649;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 8c94a29..3882498 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ They have some tricks Perl doesn't yet implement. Artur Bergman's C 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 @@ -418,9 +423,9 @@ There are a few suggestions for what to do with C: maybe a full-text search, an index function, locating pages on a particular high-level subject, and so on. -=head2 Install .3p man pages +=head2 Install .3p manpages -This is a bone of contention; we can create C<.3p> man pages for each +This is a bone of contention; we can create C<.3p> manpages for each built-in function, but should we install them by default? Tcl does this, and it clutters up C. @@ -429,6 +434,7 @@ and it clutters up C. Simon Cozens promises to do this before he gets old. =head2 Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2 + =head2 Retargetable installation Allow C<@INC> to be changed after Perl is built. @@ -468,7 +474,9 @@ code. There is a patch for this, but it may require Unicodification. =head2 Compile to real threaded code + =head2 Structured types + =head2 Modifiable $1 et al. ($x = "elephant") =~ /e(ph)/; @@ -690,11 +698,13 @@ This would break old code; use C instead. Not needed now we have lexical IO handles. =head2 format BOTTOM + =head2 report HANDLE Damian Conway's text formatting modules seem to be the Way To Go. =head2 Generalised want()/caller()) + =head2 Named prototypes These both seem to be delayed until Perl 6.