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On 20 February 2015 at 00:43, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > On 02/19/2015 04:59 AM, demerphq wrote: >> >> On 19 February 2015 at 12:59, Karl Williamson via RT >> <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed Feb 18 18:57:43 2015, jhi wrote: >>>> >>>> ... it should be possible to try reverting the commit(s) where >>>> grok_atou was introduced, and we would be back to using native atoi(). >>> >>> >>> But atoi has more bugs. Why can't we just take this out of the public >>> API? We can rename it to begin with an underscore and mark it as >>> experimental, removing the docs, so that tghere is only discouragement for >>> people using it, and the docs say you do so at your own risk >> >> >> Lets not *remove* the docs. Lets update them appropriately. :-) >> >> Yves >> >> > > We should strive for a really good API before releasing it to the public. > At this late date, it seems advisable to restrict the use of this one to the > core given there are complaints about it. Ah I see, you mean docs available from perldoc, and I mean docs available from reading the comment above the function. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next