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sawyer x wrote: > > Basically, todo.pod and the RT system (the latter more than the for- > > mer) are my to-do list. Plus any bugs I run into. > > > Are these leading to anything specific? > (and I do apologize if that sounded or was disrespectful in any way) A perl that does not crash or exhibit erratic behaviour when I'm using it for things pertaining to Real Life. I.e., I spend much of the time squashing little bugs one after the other, and searching for them, too. That's probably not what you are looking for, right? :-) > > And, when I have an itch, I work on bigger things. My current list of > > bigger things is something like this: ... > > Most of those are either very hard or controversial, so this stuff > > happens slowly. > > If any of these were formalized into "part of the plan" or "required > necessities to complete the plan", it would be less controversial, and > perhaps it would be easier to get help for doing it? The controversial things are mainly features that have not been dis- cussed enough, or things that I cannot accomplish because others disagree with the side effects of my proposed solutions. (Fixing line numbers bloats memory usage. Adding error codes my way, which is backward-compatible, makes strings 'more complex' [though I disagree].) Formalising it into part of a plan does not make the controversial details go away. And I prefer to spend time *doing stuff* rather than discussing things to death. And this discussion is taking me away from the first item in that list, and also ticket #122673, both of which I am currently work- ing on. :-) As for getting help, *I* want to be the one implementing lvalue refer- ences. :-) > What I can identify here that I would put under a plan is: > * Reduce memory usage. > * Improve debugging tools (Deparse). > * Improve Unicode support. > * Solidify keywords as CORE:: subs. > * Improve parsing. The things that you list are already happening, but some very slowly. Those are goals that I thought were self-evident. But I can see that they might not be for others, and I suppose a list of such self-evi- dent goals could be useful.Thread Previous | Thread Next