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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/perl/Todo')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Todo b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Todo index 114a488691e..627045c9520 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Todo +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Todo @@ -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 +38,20 @@ 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 |