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| author | Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> | 1997-02-10 19:00:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-02-18 13:22:00 +1200 |
| commit | aa00cc68ed6277098db9650fb1149e528f317b3a (patch) | |
| tree | 10fc9994732e0bb94c9f77d9add93dbb485e6520 /Todo | |
| parent | 70601ba7efda70ba5ebb1437a5143452aa1d6802 (diff) | |
| download | perl-aa00cc68ed6277098db9650fb1149e528f317b3a.tar.gz | |
Update To-Do list
Subject: Re: Perl Futures (was: Tentative 5.005 and 5.006 schedules)
p5p-msgid: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'Todo')
| -rw-r--r-- | Todo | 19 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -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 |