From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 19:53:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Todo updates.
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Todo updates.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11127
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index dab73b9..f96c770 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ always be set to true, but it needs to be set to false when F<utf8.pm>
 is being compiled. (To stop Perl trying to autoload the C<utf8>
 pragma...)
 
-=head2 Create a char *sv_printify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
+=head2 Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
 
 For displaying PVs with control characters, embedded nulls, and Unicode.
 This would be useful for printing warnings, or data and regex dumping,
@@ -82,10 +82,22 @@ Simon Cozens promises to work on this.
 
 =head2 Unicode regular expression character classes
 
-They have some tricks Perl doesn't yet implement.
+They have some tricks Perl doesn't yet implement like character
+class subtraction.
 
 	http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/
 
+=head2 Unicode Scripts support
+
+Currently the C<\p{In...}> supports only the Blocks database, like
+C<\p{BasicLatin}>, C<\p{InGreek}>, C<\p{InThai}>, but there's also the
+Scripts database, which has members like C<Latin>, C<Greek>,
+C<Armenian>, C<Han>.  It is desireable that also the script names
+could be used for the C<\p{In...}> construct.  Note: needs to be
+researched whether this is possible, that is, are there conflicts
+between the Blocks and the Scripts, is the Blocks Greek the same as
+the Scripts Greek?
+
 =head2 use Thread for iThreads
 
 Artur Bergman's C<iThreads> module is a start on this, but needs to
@@ -328,6 +340,12 @@ has changed. Detecting a change is perhaps the difficult bit.
 
 There should be a way of restarting the debugger on demand.
 
+=head2 Test Suite for the Debugger
+
+The debugger is a complex piece of software and fixing something
+here may inadvertently break something else over there.  To tame
+this chaotic behaviour, a test suite is necessary. 
+
 =head2 my sub foo { }
 
 The basic principle is sound, but there are problems with the semantics