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On 07/01/2017 01:52 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 7:45 PM, <pali@cpan.org <mailto:pali@cpan.org>> > wrote: > > On Saturday 01 July 2017 19:13:30 you wrote: > > to break a decade and a half of software. > > Hm? What you mean with to break? Existing functions would still work, > just there are also new functions under new names. Usage of old > functions is just removed from documentation. > > > Then I misunderstood your proposal, "rename" suggested to me that the > old ones disappear. In that case I'm not sure I see the benefit of > your proposal. Why would anyone want to use an interface that won't > work on perls older than 5.28, and could disappear in a future version > of perl (since that's the point of Internals::)? This isn't making > sense to me. You could support it with Devel::PPPort. It's a simple addition. However, the problem remains that if someone were to use these new functions without PPPort, their code would not work on older versions. I can't see a way around that.Thread Previous | Thread Next