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Steve Peters wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Karl Williamson > <public@khwilliamson.com <mailto:public@khwilliamson.com>> wrote: > returned 16 results. None of them look like they are actually using > these functions except as compatibility measures. > > I propose removing them. > > > Removing them is decently risky. I can't say we exactly know what the > blackpan is doing with them. Things that are deprecated in the API are > supposed to be moved to mathoms.c where they can be optimized out with a > -DNO_MATHOMS when compiling. > > Steve > I say remove them. They are not risky. You can't support blackpan users who will never say anything publicly about their intention to use those vars/apis, and they will never request api stability. They also won't be upgrading perl either (cost/time, corporate requirements, etc) if they can't afford to ask about apis.Thread Previous