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On 08/30/2013 10:01 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 09:18:48PM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote:
>> These functions are not called by anything in the Perl core, and
>> cpan.grep.me
>>
>> http://grep.cpan.me/?q=PerlIO_v%3Fsprintf
>>
>> shows just 4 occurrences, none of which look like they result in actual
>> calls.
>
> They arrived 17 years ago as part of "PerlIO abstraction added":
>
> commit 760ac839baf413929cd31cc32ffd6dba6b781a81
> Author: Larry Wall <lwall@sems.com>
> Date: Sat Aug 10 15:24:58 1996 +0000
>
> perl 5.003_02: [no incremental changelog available]
>
> diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
> index 7a8b96b..90175e0 100644
> --- a/Changes
> +++ b/Changes
> @@ -7,6 +7,47 @@ site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
> or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
> releases.)
>
> +----------------
> +Version 5.003_02
> +----------------
> +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
> + - Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
> + - Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
> + - Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}.
> + - UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method.
> +
> +o Changes in Core Internals
> + - PerlIO abstraction added.
> + Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO
> + mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros
> + Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or
> + to use sfio if available.
>
>
> but unlike the rest of the IO abstraction, they weren't simply wrappers that
> directed to stdio or sfio.
>
>
> As far as I can work out, they've been tweaked and refactored at various
> points, but have never actually been used by the core.
>
> I suspect that they can go. And given that their presence seems to tempt
> people to refactor them, they *should* go.
>
> I'm not sure if we should flag them with a deprecated attribute, and take
> them out post v5.20.something, or simply remove them right now on the
> assumption that no-one is using them.
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
This has been warnocked, so I would like to get a ruling from the
pumpking if no one else wishes to chime in.
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