From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:56:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Additions and removals in perltodo
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Additions and removals in perltodo

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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 9ffb628..a451c5f 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -25,36 +25,26 @@ programming languages offer you 1 line of immortality?
 The roadmap to 5.10 envisages feature based releases, as various items in this
 TODO are completed.
 
-=head2 Needed for a 5.9.4 release
+=head2 Needed for a 5.9.5 release
 
 =over
 
 =item *
 
-Implement L</state variables> (mostly done currently)
-
-=item *
-
-Review assertions. Review syntax to combine assertions. Assertions could take
-advantage of the lexical pragmas work. L</What hooks would assertions need?>
+Implement L</_ prototype character>
 
 =item *
 
-C<encoding> should be turned into a lexical pragma (probably).
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Needed for a 5.9.5 release
-
-=over
+Review smart match semantics in light of Perl 6 developments.
 
 =item *
 
-Implement L</_ prototype character>
+Review assertions. Review syntax to combine assertions. Assertions could take
+advantage of the lexical pragmas work. L</What hooks would assertions need?>
 
 =item *
 
-Review smart match semantics in light of Perl 6 developments.
+C<encoding> should be turned into a lexical pragma (probably).
 
 =back
 
@@ -84,6 +74,9 @@ easier to complete.
 
 =head2 Parallel testing
 
+(This probably impacts much more than the core, but the Test::Harness
+and TAP::* modules on CPAN.)
+
 The core regression test suite is getting ever more comprehensive, which has
 the side effect that it takes longer to run. This isn't so good. Investigate
 whether it would be feasible to give the harness script the B<option> of
@@ -117,12 +110,10 @@ Schwern has promised to donate to $500 to TPF. We may need volunteers to
 hold him upside down and shake vigorously in order to actually extract the
 cash.
 
-See F<t/lib/1_compile.t> for the 3 remaining modules that need tests.
-
 =head2 Improve the coverage of the core tests
 
-Use Devel::Cover to ascertain the core's test coverage, then add tests that
-are currently missing.
+Use Devel::Cover to ascertain the core modules's test coverage, then add
+tests that are currently missing.
 
 =head2 test B
 
@@ -284,7 +275,7 @@ wanted to perform perl level coverage, and another to specify C level
 coverage, and have C<Configure> and the F<Makefile> do all the right things
 automatically.
 
-=head2 Make Config.pm cope with differences between build and installed perl
+=head2 Make Config.pm cope with differences between built and installed perl
 
 Quite often vendors ship a perl binary compiled with their (pay-for)
 compilers.  People install a free compiler, such as gcc. To work out how to
@@ -426,8 +417,8 @@ re-used for this.
 =head2 Improve win32/wince.c
 
 Currently, numerous functions look virtually, if not completely,
-identical in both C<win32/wince.c> and C<win32/win32.c> files, which can't be good.
-
+identical in both C<win32/wince.c> and C<win32/win32.c> files, which can't
+be good.
 
 =head1 Tasks that need a knowledge of XS
 
@@ -444,17 +435,6 @@ probably aren't worth it, as typical programs don't use more than 8, and
 so it would mean code changes to modules on CPAN. C<PVBM>s might have some
 savings to win.
 
-=head2 Implicit Latin 1 => Unicode translation
-
-Conversions from byte strings to UTF-8 currently map high bit characters
-to Unicode without translation (or, depending on how you look at it, by
-implicitly assuming that the byte strings are in Latin-1). As perl assumes
-the C locale by default, upgrading a string to UTF-8 may change the
-meaning of its contents regarding character classes, case mapping, etc.
-This should probably emit a warning (at least).
-
-This task is incremental - even a little bit of work on it will help.
-
 =head2 autovivification
 
 Make all autovivification consistent w.r.t LVALUE/RVALUE and strict/no strict;
@@ -522,11 +502,6 @@ extended.
 These tasks would need C knowledge, and knowledge of how the interpreter works,
 or a willingness to learn.
 
-=head2 lexical pragmas
-
-Document the new support for lexical pragmas in 5.9.3 and how %^H works.
-Maybe C<re>, C<encoding>, maybe other pragmas could be made lexical.
-
 =head2 Attach/detach debugger from running program
 
 The old perltodo notes "With C<gdb>, you can attach the debugger to a running
@@ -549,12 +524,6 @@ would be good to fix.
 Study the possibility of adding a new prototype character, C<_>, meaning
 "this argument defaults to $_".
 
-=head2 state variables
-
-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
 
 The regexp optimiser is not optional. It should configurable to be, to allow
@@ -567,6 +536,15 @@ compilation unit (module, file, eval(STRING) block). This will correspond to
 the Perl 6 CHECK. Perl 5's CHECK cannot be changed or removed because the
 O.pm/B.pm backend framework depends on it.
 
+=head2 delete &function
+
+Allow to delete functions. One can already undef them, but they're still
+in the stash.
+
+=head2 Make readpipe overridable
+
+so we can override qx// as well.
+
 =head2 optional optimizer
 
 Make the peephole optimizer optional. Currently it performs two tasks as