Note that Rafael has done the first cut of state variables.

Document that UTF-8 cleansing the tokeniser and the pads is TODO.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27886

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 15995bc..3ff9942 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -532,6 +532,7 @@ Study the possibility of adding a new prototype character, C<_>, meaning
 
 C<my $foo if 0;> is deprecated, and should be replaced with
 C<state $x = "initial value\n";> the syntax from Perl 6.
+Rafael has sent a first cut patch to perl5-porters.
 
 =head2 regexp optimiser optional
 
@@ -590,6 +591,14 @@ investigate what hooks would need to be added to make it possible to provide
 the full assertion support from a CPAN module, so that we aren't constraining
 the imagination of future CPAN authors.
 
+=head2 Properly Unicode safe tokeniser and pads.
+
+The tokeniser isn't actually very UTF-8 clean. C<use utf8;> is a hack -
+variable names are stored in stashes as raw bytes, without the utf-8 flag
+set. The pad API only takes a C<char *> pointer, so that's all bytes too. The
+tokeniser ignores the UTF-8-ness of C<PL_rsfp>, or any SVs returned from
+source filters.  All this could be fixed.
+