This page used to contain Rakudo-specific items. That content is now here.

Now this page contains Perl6-generic TODO items. That means, mostly, places where the established Synopsis could be made more explicit, and larger tasks involving the DRAFT synopsis.

Established Synopsis (non-draft) TODO

• all spec: .iterator versus .Iterator
• S02 radix literals elaborate "default radix" behavior.
• is the :16(0b0) :16(0d0) peculiar to :16, or generic behavior if number is legal in the "default" radix e.g. :12(0b0)?
• does the statement about "default radix" apply only to :16(...) or also :16<...>?
• maybe worth elaborating what :N[0xdeadbeef] would do under "decimal" restriction
• ...or relaxing that restriction
• ...and perhaps making clear whether :N[4,$x] is legal and thus it's functional like :N(...)
• S03 zip and parallel array traversal
• see S07 section below WRT .eoi
• Probably no reason why it should not take single Iterators as well as lists and DWIM
• that is zip((1,2,3);$iterator) should probably interleave (1,2,3) with $iterator.get results
• but still treat zip((1,2,3); ($iterator,"foo","bar")) as (1,$iterator;2,"foo";3,"bar)
• The intent is probably that zip stops before calling .get on any Iterator for this pass when any .eoi != False
• This needs to be clear in spec
• This requires peekability of both .eoi == True and .eoi == Inf
• Behavior when .eoi == undef ("may terminate, cannot tell") needs to be explicit
• Or we could drop the specification that infinite lists are detected/aborted
• we allow other things to be infinite, why not zip?
• Is the Iterator or the zip/operator code responsible for implementing (...,*) repeating last element?
• S04 gather/take
• Define behavior of nested gather/takes
• Is there caller.take and context(...).take as per .leave
• Can you label gathers and use LABEL.take
• S09 Compact Structures
• Define packing behavior of class A is int8 { has $.b int8 }; my @a of A;
• Define packing behavior of class A is B is C ....
• Define packing behavior in the Diamond Problem case (see also)
• Define packing/data storage behavior for extra attributes added with run-time class composition
• S12 Disambiguate second sentence in line 69
• S12 Clear up "declaration's scope" in line 82 (e.g. not the has/our in decl)
• S12 Can := be used in attribute pseudo-assignment?

DRAFT Synopsis

• (in progress) split up S32
• S32/* review prototypes esp WRT return types
• lots of Int/Str where maybe should be Any
• perhaps some missing return type variants e.g. List push/unshift (for feeds)
• needs attention from someone who has followed p6l closely
• S07 carefully decide whether generic item iterator "flattens" like the generic array iterator
• S07 Should probably implement .eoi to peek Iterator
• S07 Need way to test for Iterators known to never normally terminate (for zip)
• suggest .eoi be allowed to return Inf to indicate this