X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperltodo.pod;h=5962fc8f16d3adec05ad3b7606d19d1c4ff82a30;hb=9072afa6a1cad5176fdec32dd3c05b3363fea520;hp=fe339dec79addd8be56140be6bb26e23f1ab8389;hpb=04c704464805e8b58c229a4f2a086e506ed7eed7;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index fe339de..5962fc8 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -1,4 +1,8 @@ -=head1 Perl TO-DO List +=head1 NAME + +perltodo - Perl TO-DO List + +=head1 DESCRIPTION This is a list of wishes for Perl. It is maintained by Nathan Torkington for the Perl porters. Send updates to @@ -117,11 +121,6 @@ Verify complete 64 bit support so that the value of sysseek, or C<-s>, or stat(), or tell can fit into a perl number without losing precision. Work with the perl-64bit mailing list on perl.org. -=head2 Figure a way out of $^(capital letter) - -Figure out a clean way to extend $^(capital letter) beyond -the 26 alphabets. (${^WORD} maybe?) - =head2 Prototypes =over 4 @@ -237,6 +236,7 @@ will be difficult. CPP-space: restrict CPP symbols exported from headers header-space: move into CORE/perl/ API-space: begin list of things that constitute public api + env-space: Configure should use PERL_CONFIG instead of CONFIG etc. =head2 MULTIPLICITY @@ -378,7 +378,9 @@ Make C tell users what they need to add to their .login or =head2 Install ALL Documentation Make the standard documentation kit include the VMS, OS/2, Win32, -Threads, etc information. +Threads, etc information. installperl and pod/Makefile should know +enough to copy README.foo to perlfoo.pod before building everything, +when appropriate. =head2 Outstanding issues to be documented @@ -839,6 +841,13 @@ Can we install modules as bytecode? =head1 Recently Finished Tasks +=head2 Figure a way out of $^(capital letter) + +Figure out a clean way to extend $^(capital letter) beyond +the 26 alphabets. (${^WORD} maybe?) + +Mark-Jason Dominus sent a patch which went into 5.005_56. + =head2 Filenames Make filenames in the distribution and in the standard module set