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On 7 Aug 2016 11:34, "Sawyer X" <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 08/06/2016 03:39 PM, Tony Cook wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 09:05:23AM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > >> What is Internals? > > Internals is deliberately undocumented, unsupported. > > Not documenting as a form of keeping possible users away feels like > security by obscurity. Documentation should not imply support. We can > document it clearly for other core developers and note *very* clearly > that it is unsupported. I don't agree. We document indirectly those functions that are intended to be user serviceable. The rest imo should not be documented because they should not exist but do because they are needed to test perl. Furthermore they are typically documented at the XS or perl internals level, and all the perl level functions do is expose internals routines. I also think that if we are going to document them we should move them to better namespace. YvezThread Previous | Thread Next