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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Reini Urban wrote: >> 2011/4/13 Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>: >>> On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Reini Urban wrote: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/rurban/perl/commit/3691eaa79cc6a196b6a424b4c7abc6c8f5a481e2 >>>> contains the full store_cop_label patch. >>> >>> Thanks! I've attached a comment on github that the symbol should be >>> marked with "A" and not "EX" if you want to use it from outside the >>> core distribution. >> >> I only see it useful for the compilers, so EX. > > B::C is not in ext/ inside the core, so "EX" does not apply. If you want > to use it from CPAN, is has to be "A". From the core point of view, > nothing on CPAN is "more special" than everything else. > > Claiming upfront that you intend to ignore the spirit of the rules > anyways just makes it so much harder to get your patch accepted, so > please don't do that! There's utility in exposing things but not making promises about stable APIs. If that's the point to this change, then I find sympathy with it. JoshThread Previous | Thread Next