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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 7de53535c0..a8a6d797cc 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -25,22 +25,14 @@ 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 5.9.3 release - -=over - -=item * -Implement L</lexical pragmas> - -=back - =head2 Needed for a 5.9.4 release =over =item * -Review assertions. Review syntax to combine assertions. Can assertions take -advantage of the lexical pragams work? L</What hooks would assertions need?> + +Review assertions. Review syntax to combine assertions. Assertions could take +advantage of the lexical pragmas work. L</What hooks would assertions need?> =back @@ -77,6 +69,9 @@ visual appeal of the HTML generated, and to avoid it having any validation errors. See also L</make HTML install work>, as the layout of installation tree is needed to improve the cross-linking. +The addition of C<Pod::Simple> and its related modules may make this task +easier to complete. + =head2 Parallel testing The core regression test suite is getting ever more comprehensive, which has @@ -541,10 +536,8 @@ or a willingness to learn. =head2 lexical pragmas -Reimplement the mechanism of lexical pragmas to be more extensible. Fix -current pragmas that don't work well (or at all) with lexical scopes or in -run-time eval(STRING) (C<sort>, C<re>, C<encoding> for example). MJD has a -preliminary patch that implements this. +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 @@ -553,16 +546,6 @@ program if you pass the process ID. It would be good to do this with the Perl debugger on a running Perl program, although I'm not sure how it would be done." ssh and screen do this with named pipes in /tmp. Maybe we can too. -=head2 inlining autoloaded constants - -Currently the optimiser can inline constants when expressed as subroutines -with prototype ($) that return a constant. Likewise, many packages wrapping -C libraries export lots of constants as subroutines which are AUTOLOADed on -demand. However, these have no prototypes, so can't be seen as constants by -the optimiser. Some way of cheaply (low syntax, low memory overhead) to the -perl compiler that a name is a constant would be great, so that it knows to -call the AUTOLOAD routine at compile time, and then inline the constant. - =head2 Constant folding The peephole optimiser should trap errors during constant folding, and give @@ -643,12 +626,6 @@ instated. The old perltodo notes "Look at the "reification" code in C<av.c>". -=head2 switch ops - -The old perltodo notes "Although we have C<Switch.pm> in core, Larry points to -the dormant C<nswitch> and C<cswitch> ops in F<pp.c>; using these opcodes would -be much faster." - =head2 What hooks would assertions need? Assertions are in the core, and work. However, assertions needed to be added @@ -662,8 +639,6 @@ the imagination of future CPAN authors. - - =head1 Big projects Tasks that will get your name mentioned in the description of the "Highlights |