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Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)

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pali
Date:
July 1, 2017 17:47
Subject:
Re: [perl #131685] Rename utf8::is_utf8() (and other functions)
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201707011913.27663@pali
On Saturday 01 July 2017 18:54:24 you wrote:
> > Plus adding backward compatible aliases to make existing code works
> > like before.
> 
> Then why add new functions in the first place?

From discussion it was clear that current name utf8::is_utf8() is poor 
and is reason why it is incorrectly used.
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