F<AUTHORS> file, which ships in the official distribution. How many other
programming languages offer you 1 line of immortality?
-=head1 Tasks that need only a little Perl knowledge
-
-=head2 Fix POD errors in Perl documentation
-
-Perl documentation is furnished in POD (Plain Old Documentation); see
-L<perlpod>. We also have a utility that checks for various errors in
-this documentation: F<t/porting/podcheck.t>. Unfortunately many files
-have errors in them, and there is a database of known problems, kept in
-F<t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat>. The most prevalent errors are lines
-too wide to fit in a standard terminal window, but there are more
-serious problems as well; and there are items listed there that are not
-in fact errors. The task would be to go through and clean up the
-documentation. This would be a good way to learn more about Perl.
-
=head1 Tasks that only need Perl knowledge
=head2 Classify bug tickets by type
On these systems, it might be the default compilation mode, and there
is currently no guarantee that passing no use64bitall option to the
Configure process will build a 32bit perl. Implementing -Duse32bit*
-options would be nice for perl 5.23.8.
+options would be nice for perl 5.25.2.
=head2 Profile Perl - am I hot or not?
been written so that it reflects the state of the read-only attribute, even
for directories (whatever CRT is being used), for symmetry with chmod().)
-=head2 strcat(), strcpy(), strncat(), strncpy(), sprintf(), vsprintf()
-
-Maybe create a utility that checks after each libperl.a creation that
-none of the above (nor sprintf(), vsprintf(), or *SHUDDER* gets())
-ever creep back to libperl.a.
-
- nm libperl.a | ./miniperl -alne '$o = $F[0] if /:$/;
- print "$o $F[1]" if $F[0] eq "U" && $F[1] =~ /^(?:strn?c(?:at|py)|v?sprintf|gets)$/'
-
-Note, of course, that this will only tell whether B<your> platform
-is using those naughty interfaces.
-
=head2 Arenas for GPs? For MAGIC?
C<struct gp> and C<struct magic> are both currently allocated by C<malloc>.
progressively update ExtUtils::ParseXS to generate OP implementations for
some XSUBs.
+=head2 Document how XS modules can install lexical subs
+
+There is an example in XS::APItest (look for C<lexical_import> in
+F<ext/XS-APItest/APItest.xs>). The documentation could be based on it.
+
=head2 Remove the use of SVs as temporaries in dump.c
F<dump.c> contains debugging routines to dump out the contains of perl data
system() accepts a LIST syntax (and a PROGRAM LIST syntax) to avoid
running a shell. readpipe() (the function behind qx//) could be similarly
-extended.
+extended. Note that changing readpipe() itself may not be the solution, as
+it currently has unary precedence, and allowing a list would change the
+precedence.
=head2 Audit the code for destruction ordering assumptions
=head2 strict as warnings
-See L<http://markmail.org/message/vbrupaslr3bybmvk>, where Josua ben Jore
+See L<http://markmail.org/message/vbrupaslr3bybmvk>, where Joshua ben Jore
writes: I've been of the opinion that everything strict.pm does ought to be
able to considered just warnings that have been promoted to 'FATAL'.
=head1 Big projects
Tasks that will get your name mentioned in the description of the "Highlights
-of 5.23.8"
+of 5.25.2"
=head2 make ithreads more robust
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