What's on the bash `wish list' for future versions?

What's on the bash `wish list' for future versions? 


These are features that may or may not appear in a future version of bash.



breaking some of the shell functionality into embeddable libraries

a module system like zsh's, using dynamic loading like builtins

better internationalization using GNU `gettext'

an option to use external files for the long `help' text

date-stamped command history

a bash programmer's guide with a chapter on creating loadable builtins

a better loadable interface to perl with access to the shell builtins and

	variables (contributions gratefully accepted)

ksh93-like `nameref' variables

ksh93-like `+=' variable assignment operator

ksh93-like `xx.yy' variables (including some of the .sh.* variables) and

	associated disipline functions

Some of the new ksh93 pattern matching operators, like backreferencing

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