Note changes to perlvar in perldelta

[perl5.git] / pod / perltodo.pod

diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index a16cf0d..7146010 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ programming languages offer you 1 line of immortality?
 
 =head1 Tasks that only need Perl knowledge
 
-=head2 Improve Porting/cmpVERSION.pl to work from git tags
-
-See F<Porting/release_managers_guide.pod> for a bit more detail.
-
 =head2 Migrate t/ from custom TAP generation
 
 Many tests below F<t/> still generate TAP by "hand", rather than using library
@@ -150,14 +146,6 @@ do so. Test it with older perl releases, and fix the problems you find.
 To make a minimal perl distribution, it's useful to look at
 F<t/lib/commonsense.t>.
 
-=head2 Move dual-life pod/*.PL into ext
-
-Nearly all the dual-life modules have been moved to F<ext>. However, we
-still  need to move F<pod/*.PL> into their respective directories
-in F<ext/>. They're referenced by (at least) C<plextract> in F<Makefile.SH>
-and C<utils> in F<win32/Makefile> and F<win32/makefile.ml>, and listed
-explicitly in F<win32/pod.mak>, F<vms/descrip_mms.template> and F<utils.lst>
-
 =head2 POSIX memory footprint
 
 Ilya observed that use POSIX; eats memory like there's no tomorrow, and at
@@ -261,7 +249,7 @@ to do this manually are roughly
 =item *
 
 do a normal C<Configure>, but include Devel::Cover as a module to install
-(see F<INSTALL> for how to do this)
+(see L<INSTALL> for how to do this)
 
 =item *
 
@@ -338,7 +326,8 @@ visibility just to symbols declared in that file. It would be good to extend
 F<makedef.pl> to support this format, and to provide a means within
 C<Configure> to enable it. This would allow Unix users to test that the
 export list is correct, and to build a perl that does not pollute the global
-namespace with private symbols.
+namespace with private symbols, and will fail in the same way as msvc or mingw 
+builds or when using PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1.
 
 =head2 Cross-compile support
 
@@ -1046,11 +1035,6 @@ slices. This would be good to fix.
 The regexp optimiser is not optional. It should configurable to be, to allow
 its performance to be measured, and its bugs to be easily demonstrated.
 
-=head2 delete &function
-
-Allow to delete functions. One can already undef them, but they're still
-in the stash.
-
 =head2 C</w> regex modifier
 
 That flag would enable to match whole words, and also to interpolate
@@ -1248,6 +1232,12 @@ combines the code in pp_entersub, pp_leavesub.  This should probably
 be done 1st in XS, and using B::Generate to patch the new OP into the
 optrees.
 
+=head2 Add C<00dddd>
+
+It has been proposed that octal constants be specifiable through the syntax
+C<0oddddd>, parallel to the existing construct to specify hex constants
+C<0xddddd>
+
 =head1 Big projects
 
 Tasks that will get your name mentioned in the description of the "Highlights
@@ -1260,7 +1250,8 @@ Generally make ithreads more robust. See also L</iCOW>
 This task is incremental - even a little bit of work on it will help, and
 will be greatly appreciated.
 
-One bit would be to write the missing code in sv.c:Perl_dirp_dup.
+One bit would be to determine how to clone directory handles on systems
+without a C<fchdir> function (in sv.c:Perl_dirp_dup).
 
 Fix Perl_sv_dup, et al so that threads can return objects.
 
@@ -1274,11 +1265,6 @@ it would be a good thing.
 
 Fix (or rewrite) the implementation of the C</(?{...})/> closures.
 
-=head2 A re-entrant regexp engine
-
-This will allow the use of a regex from inside (?{ }), (??{ }) and
-(?(?{ })|) constructs.
-
 =head2 Add class set operations to regexp engine
 
 Apparently these are quite useful. Anyway, Jeffery Friedl wants them.