Update To-Do list

Subject: Re: Perl Futures (was: Tentative 5.005 and 5.006 schedules)

p5p-msgid: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>

diff --git a/Todo b/Todo
index 114a488..5e48ba6 100644 (file)
--- a/Todo
+++ b/Todo
@@ -5,27 +5,22 @@ Tie Modules
        ShiftSplice             Defines shift et al in terms of splice method
 
 Would be nice to have
-       Profiler
        pack "(stuff)*"
        Contiguous bitfields in pack/unpack
        lexperl
        Bundled perl preprocessor
        Use posix calls internally where possible
-       const variables
        gettimeofday
-       bytecompiler
        format BOTTOM
-       $obj->can("method") to probe method inheritance
        -iprefix.
        -i rename file only when successfully changed
        All ARGV input should act like <>
-       Multiple levels of warning
        report HANDLE [formats].
-       tie(FILEHANDLE, ...)
-       __DATA__
        support in perlmain to rerun debugger
-       make 'r' print return value like gdb 'fini'
-       regression tests using __WARN__ and __DIE__ hooks
+       regression tests using __DIE__ hook
+       reference to compiled regexp
+       lexically scoped functions: my sub foo { ... }
+       lvalue functions
 
 Possible pragmas
        debugger
@@ -43,25 +38,21 @@ Optimizations
        Shrink opcode tables via multiple implementations selected in peep
        Cache hash value?  (Not a win, according to Guido)
        Optimize away @_ where possible
-       sfio?
        "one pass" global destruction
        Optimize sort by { $a <=> $b }
        Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization
+       LRU cache of regexp: foreach $pat (@pats) { foo() if /$pat/ }
 
 Vague possibilities
        ref function in list context
-       Populate %SIG at startup if appropriate
        data prettyprint function?  (or is it, as I suspect, a lib routine?)
        make tr/// return histogram in list context?
        undef wantarray in void context
        Loop control on do{} et al
        Explicit switch statements
-       perl to C translator
-       multi-thread scheduling
        built-in globbing
        compile to real threaded code
        structured types
-       paren counting in tokener to queue remote expectations
        autocroak?
        Modifiable $1 et al
        substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,STRING