[perl5.git] / msdos / Wishlist.dds

Perl in general:
Add ftw or find?
Add a parsing mechanism (user specifies parse tree, perl parses).
Arbitrary precision arithmetic.
File calculus (e.g. file1 = file2 + file3, file1 =^ s/foo/bar/g etc.)

MS-DOS version of Perl:
Add interface to treat dBase files as associative arrays.
Add int86x function.
Handle the C preprocessor.
Provide real pipes by switching the processes. (difficult)
Provide a list of ioctl codes.
Check the ioctl errno handling.
I can't find an easy way in Perl to pass a number as the first argument
  to ioctl.  This is needed for some functions of ioctl.  Either hack
  ioctl, or change perl to ioctl interface.  Another solution would be
  a perl pseudo array containing the filehandles indexed by fd.
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21d892ea LW	1	Perl in general:
	2	Add ftw or find?
	3	Add a parsing mechanism (user specifies parse tree, perl parses).
	4	Arbitrary precision arithmetic.
	5	File calculus (e.g. file1 = file2 + file3, file1 =^ s/foo/bar/g etc.)
	6
	7	MS-DOS version of Perl:
	8	Add interface to treat dBase files as associative arrays.
	9	Add int86x function.
	10	Handle the C preprocessor.
	11	Provide real pipes by switching the processes. (difficult)
	12	Provide a list of ioctl codes.
	13	Check the ioctl errno handling.
	14	I can't find an easy way in Perl to pass a number as the first argument
	15	to ioctl. This is needed for some functions of ioctl. Either hack
	16	ioctl, or change perl to ioctl interface. Another solution would be
	17	a perl pseudo array containing the filehandles indexed by fd.