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6dd11d31 | 1 | Unicode support |
d1edabcf GS |
2 | finish byte <-> utf8 and localencoding <-> utf8 conversions |
3 | make substr($bytestr,0,0,$charstr) do the right conversion | |
6dd11d31 GS |
4 | add Unicode::Map equivivalent to core |
5 | add support for I/O disciplines | |
d1edabcf GS |
6 | - a way to specify disciplines when opening things: |
7 | open(F, "<:crlf :utf16", $file) | |
8 | - a way to specify disciplines for an already opened handle: | |
9 | binmode(STDIN, ":slurp :raw") | |
10 | - a way to set default disciplines for all handle constructors: | |
11 | use open IN => ":any", OUT => ":utf8", SYS => ":utf16" | |
6dd11d31 | 12 | eliminate need for "use utf8;" |
d1edabcf | 13 | autoload byte.pm when byte:: is seen by the parser |
560a288e | 14 | check uv_to_utf8() calls for buffer overflow |
5396e592 JH |
15 | make \uXXXX (and \u{XXXX}?) where XXXX are hex digits |
16 | to work similarly to Unicode tech reports and Java | |
17 | notation \uXXXX (and already existing \x{XXXX))? | |
18 | more than four hexdigits? make also \U+XXXX work? | |
2c674647 JH |
19 | |
20 | see ext/Encode/Todo for notes and references about proper detection | |
21 | of malformed UTF-8 | |
22 | ||
23 | SCSU? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr6/ | |
24 | Collation? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr10/ | |
25 | Normalization? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ | |
26 | EBCDIC? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr16/ | |
27 | Regexes? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/ | |
28 | Case Mappings? http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/ | |
29 | ||
5396e592 | 30 | See also "Locales", "Regexen", and "Miscellaneous". |
6dd11d31 | 31 | |
d7d0d977 | 32 | Multi-threading |
6dd11d31 GS |
33 | support "use Thread;" under useithreads |
34 | add mechanism to: | |
35 | - create new interpreter in a different thread | |
36 | - exchange data between interpreters/threads | |
37 | - share namespaces between interpreters/threads | |
38 | work out consistent semantics for exit/die in threads | |
39 | support for externally created threads? | |
40 | Thread::Pool? | |
d7d0d977 MB |
41 | |
42 | Compiler | |
43 | auto-produce executable | |
44 | typed lexicals should affect B::CC::load_pad | |
45 | workarounds to help Win32 | |
d7d0d977 MB |
46 | END blocks need saving in compiled output |
47 | _AUTOLOAD prodding | |
25f62d1c MB |
48 | fix comppadlist (names in comppad_name can have fake SvCUR |
49 | from where newASSIGNOP steals the field) | |
d7d0d977 | 50 | |
5152d7c7 | 51 | Namespace cleanup |
6dd11d31 GS |
52 | CPP-space: restrict what we export from headers when !PERL_CORE |
53 | header-space: move into CORE/perl/? | |
54 | API-space: complete the list of things that constitute public api | |
5152d7c7 | 55 | |
45ebb638 JH |
56 | Configure |
57 | make configuring+building away from source directory work (VPATH et al) | |
d57b1ce7 | 58 | this is related to: cross-compilation configuring (see Todo) |
da44fe2a | 59 | _r support (see Todo for mode detailed description) |
1d82895f JH |
60 | POSIX 1003.1 1996 Edition support--realtime stuff: |
61 | POSIX semaphores, message queues, shared memory, realtime clocks, | |
62 | timers, signals (the metaconfig units mostly already exist for these) | |
5b0d9cef | 63 | PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION |
1d82895f | 64 | UNIX98 support: reader-writer locks, realtime/asynchronous IO |
5b0d9cef | 65 | PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION |
da44fe2a | 66 | IPv6 support: see RFC2292, RFC2553 |
5b0d9cef | 67 | PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION |
497711e7 | 68 | there already is Socket6 in CPAN |
45ebb638 | 69 | |
fe32fb73 JH |
70 | Long doubles |
71 | figure out where the PV->NV->PV conversion gets it wrong at least | |
72 | in AIX and Tru64 (V5.0 and onwards) when using long doubles: see the | |
55f6b6ec JH |
73 | regexp tricks we had to insert to t/comp/use.t and t/lib/bigfltpm.t, |
74 | (?:9|8999\d+) and the like. | |
75 | ||
76 | 64-bit support | |
77 | Configure probe for quad_t, uquad_t, and (argh) u_quad_t, they might | |
78 | be in some systems the only thing working as quadtype and uquadtype. | |
5b0d9cef | 79 | more pain: long_long, u_long_long. |
fe32fb73 | 80 | |
45ebb638 | 81 | Locales |
6dd11d31 | 82 | deprecate traditional/legacy locales? |
8bce6328 | 83 | How do locales work across packages? |
6dd11d31 | 84 | figure out how to support Unicode locales |
1d82895f | 85 | suggestion: integrate the IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) |
8bce6328 | 86 | http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/ |
592fe524 JH |
87 | ICU is "portable, open-source Unicode library with: |
88 | charset-independent locales (with multiple locales | |
89 | simultaneously supported in same thread; character | |
90 | conversions; formatting/parsing for numbers, currencies, | |
91 | date/time and messages; message catalogs (resources); | |
92 | transliteration, collation, normalization, and text | |
93 | boundaries (grapheme, word, line-break))". | |
94 | Check out also the Locale Converter: | |
1d82895f | 95 | http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/localeconverter |
592fe524 | 96 | There is also the iconv interface, either from XPG4 or GNU (glibc). |
8bce6328 JH |
97 | iconv is about character set conversions. |
98 | Either ICU or iconv would be valuable to get integrated | |
fe32fb73 | 99 | into Perl, Configure already probes for libiconv and <iconv.h>. |
45ebb638 JH |
100 | |
101 | Regexen | |
6dd11d31 | 102 | make RE engine thread-safe |
e620704b JH |
103 | a way to do full character set arithmetics: now one can do |
104 | addition, negate a whole class, and negate certain subclasses | |
105 | (e.g. \D, [:^digit:]), but a more generic way to add/subtract/ | |
106 | intersect characters/classes, like described in the Unicode technical | |
107 | report on Regular Expression Guidelines, | |
108 | http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/ | |
109 | (amusingly, the TR notes that difference and intersection | |
110 | can be done using "Perl-style look-ahead") | |
111 | difference syntax? maybe [[:alpha:][^abc]] meaning | |
112 | "all alphabetic expect a, b, and c"? or [[:alpha:]-[abc]]? | |
113 | (maybe bad, as we explicitly disallow such 'ranges') | |
114 | intersection syntax? maybe [[..]&[...]]? | |
b8c5462f | 115 | POSIX [=bar=] and [.zap.] would nice too but there's no API for them |
1d82895f JH |
116 | =bar= could be done with Unicode, though, see the Unicode TR #15 about |
117 | normalization forms: | |
118 | http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ | |
119 | this is also a part of the Unicode 3.0: | |
120 | http://www.unicode.org/unicode/uni2book/u2.html | |
121 | executive summary: there are several different levels of 'equivalence' | |
592fe524 JH |
122 | trie optimization: factor out common suffixes (and prefixes?) |
123 | from |-alternating groups (both for exact strings and character | |
124 | classes, use lookaheads?) | |
45ebb638 JH |
125 | approximate matching |
126 | ||
19e16c31 JH |
127 | Security |
128 | use fchown, fchmod (and futimes?) internally when possible | |
129 | use fchdir(how portable?) | |
fe32fb73 JH |
130 | create secure reliable portable temporary file modules |
131 | audit the standard utilities for security problems and fix them | |
19e16c31 | 132 | |
5152d7c7 | 133 | Reliable Signals |
54aff467 | 134 | custom opcodes |
5152d7c7 GS |
135 | alternate runops() for signal despatch |
136 | figure out how to die() in delayed sighandler | |
6dd11d31 | 137 | make Thread::Signal work under useithreads |
5152d7c7 GS |
138 | |
139 | Win32 stuff | |
6dd11d31 | 140 | sort out the spawnvp() mess for system('a','b','c') compatibility |
5152d7c7 | 141 | work out DLL versioning |
5152d7c7 GS |
142 | |
143 | Miscellaneous | |
157fa422 | 144 | introduce @( and @) because group names can have spaces |
0ff51efc | 145 | add new modules (Archive::Tar, Compress::Zlib, CPAN::FTP?) |
fe32fb73 JH |
146 | sub-second sleep()? alarm()? time()? (integrate Time::HiRes? |
147 | Configure doesn't yet probe for usleep/nanosleep/ualarm but | |
148 | the units exist) | |
149 | floating point handling: nans, infinities, fp exception masks, etc. | |
a3540c92 JH |
150 | At least the following interfaces exist: fp_classify(), fp_class(), |
151 | class(), isinf(), isfinite(), finite(), isnormal(), unordered(), | |
152 | <ieeefp.h>, <fp_class.h> (there are metaconfig units for all these), | |
153 | fp_setmask(), fp_getmask(), fp_setround(), fp_getround() | |
154 | (no metaconfig units yet for these). | |
155 | Don't forget finitel(), fp_classl(), fp_class_l(), (yes, both do, | |
156 | unfortunately, exist), and unorderedl(). | |
5b0d9cef | 157 | PREFERABLY AS AN EXTENSION. |
a3540c92 | 158 | As of 5.6.1 there is cpp macro Perl_isnan(). |
fe32fb73 | 159 | fix the basic arithmetics (+ - * / %) to preserve IVness/UVness if |
157fa422 JH |
160 | both arguments are IVs/UVs: it sucks that one cannot see |
161 | the 'carry flag' (or equivalent) of the CPU from C, | |
162 | C is too high-level... | |
6dd11d31 | 163 | replace pod2html with new PodtoHtml? (requires other modules from CPAN) |
245ccdfc | 164 | automate testing with large parts of CPAN |
fe32fb73 JH |
165 | turn Cwd into an XS module? (Configure already probes for getcwd()) |
166 | mmap for speeding up input? (Configure already probes for the mmap family) | |
167 | sendmsg, recvmsg? (Configure doesn't probe for these but the units exist) | |
55f6b6ec | 168 | setitimer, getitimer? (the metaconfig units exist) |
245ccdfc GS |
169 | |
170 | Ongoing | |
171 | keep filenames 8.3 friendly, where feasible | |
172 | upgrade to newer versions of all independently maintained modules | |
9cc29783 | 173 | comprehensive perldelta.pod |
5152d7c7 | 174 | |
d7d0d977 | 175 | Documentation |
5152d7c7 GS |
176 | describe new age patterns |
177 | update perl{guts,call,embed,xs} with additions, changes to API | |
c6018dae | 178 | convert more examples to use autovivified filehandles |
5152d7c7 | 179 | document Win32 choices |
5152d7c7 | 180 | spot-check all new modules for completeness |
11162842 | 181 | better docs for pack()/unpack() |
245ccdfc | 182 | reorg tutorials vs. reference sections |
497711e7 GS |
183 | make roffitall to be dynamical about its pods and libs |
184 |