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From:
Rocco Caputo
Date:
August 15, 2016 18:39
Subject:
Re: Internals:: undocumented
Message ID:
77DF5EC2-DC03-4E42-BDAB-FD219E85AAC0@pobox.com
On Aug 15, 2016, at 14:24, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 15 August 2016 at 19:48, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Not per se, though I'm not sure it can be made to work on 5.8
>> (hv_clear_placeholders was introduced in 5.9.1, and I don't remember the
>> details of how such things worked before).
> 
> It was dual-life in the past.

Is everyone clear as to why it was brought into core? I'm not, but I presume there were Reasons. It seems prudent to re-examine them before switching back.

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Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com>
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