perl 5.000perl-5.000

[editor's note: this commit combines approximate 4 months of furious
releases of Andy Dougherty and Larry Wall - see pod/perlhist.pod for
details.  Andy notes that;
 
Alas neither my "Irwin AccuTrack" nor my DC 600A quarter-inch cartridge 
backup tapes from that era seem to be readable anymore.  I guess 13 years 
exceeds the shelf life for that backup technology :-(.
]

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/Todo b/Todo
index 6e75f7ea37..a71e3ff43c 100755
--- a/Todo
+++ b/Todo
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Modules
-	POSIX (in progress)
+Modules needed
 	X/Motif/Tk etc.
+	Curses
 
 Tie Modules
 	VecArray		Implement array using vec()
@@ -8,34 +8,18 @@ Tie Modules
 	VirtualArray		Implement array using a file
 	ShiftSplice		Defines shift et al in terms of splice method
 
-Bugs
-	Make yyparse recursion longjmp() proof.
-	Make "delete $array{$key} while ($key) = each %array" safe
-	<$handle> doesn't work intuitively if $handle is ARGV
-	Anything in the Bugs directory
-
-Regexp extensions
-	/m  for multiline
-	/\Afoo/ (beginning of string, or where previous g match left off)
-	/foo\Z/ (end of string only)
-	negative regexp assertions?
-	/<>/x for grouping?
-	/f for fixed variable interpolation?
-	Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization
-
 Would be nice to have
 	Profiler
 	pack "(stuff)*"
 	Contiguous bitfields in pack/unpack
 	lexperl
 	Bundled perl preprocessor
-	Make $[ compile-time instead of run-time
 	Use posix calls internally where possible
 	const variables
 	gettimeofday
 	bytecompiler
 	format BOTTOM
-	willcall()
+	$obj->can("method") to probe method inheritance
 	-iprefix.
 	-i rename file only when successfully changed
 	All ARGV input should act like <>
@@ -44,30 +28,33 @@ Would be nice to have
 	report HANDLE [formats].
 	tie(FILEHANDLE, ...)
 	__DATA__
+	support in perlmain to rerun debugger
+	make 'r' print return value like gdb 'fini'
 
-Possible averments
+Possible pragmas
 	debugger
-	optimize
+	optimize (use less memory, CPU)
 
 Optimizations
-	Optimize switch statements
-	Optimize foreach on array
-	Optimize foreach (1..1000000)
+	constant function cache
+	switch structures
+	foreach(@array)
+	foreach (1..1000000)
+	foreach(reverse...)
 	Set KEEP on constant split
 	Cache eval tree (unless lexical outer scope used (mark in &compiling?))
 	rcatmaybe
 	Shrink opcode tables via multiple implementations selected in peep
-	Cache hash value?
+	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
 
-Need to think more about
+Vague possibilities
 	ref function in list context
 	Populate %SIG at startup if appropriate
-
-Vague possibilities
 	sub mysplice(@, $, $, ...)
 	data prettyprint function?  (or is it, as I suspect, a lib routine?)
 	Nested destructors
@@ -82,3 +69,7 @@ Vague possibilities
 	structured types
 	paren counting in tokener to queue remote expectations
 	autocroak?
+	Modifiable $1 et al
+	substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,STRING
+	locally capture warnings into an array
+