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From:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Date:
December 15, 2021 16:03
Subject:
Re: Initial hack at 'builtin::' namespace | online TODO list ofindividual functions
Message ID:
20211215155307.3fbc56aa@shy.leonerd.org.uk
Latest update:

Current pending PR adds a `use builtin :ver` tagging system

  https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/19282

This isn't yet integrated into the main `use VERSION` but we could
perhaps consider that sometime.

About the only big thing left to consider, is where to keep track of
ideas for more functions to add. I'm sure there's a huge supply of
potential ideas:

  * getcwd (from `Internals`)

  * unicode_to_native and native_to_unicode (from the odd `utf8`)

  * Other bits and pieces from Scalar::Util ?

  * refcount

  * trim / trimmed

  * Aliases of *all* the current core ops that behave like simple
    functions (e.g. bless, lc/uc/fc). This covers probably about 70% of
    all the CORE:: keywords to be honest.

I don't really want to make an exhaustive list in email because that'll
constantly get out of date as people add more ideas and we remove
implemented ones.

Does anyone have a good suggestion on where to keep that as an online
dynamic TODO list?

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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