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On Wed, 12 Jul 2017 22:53:57 -0600, Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > It came about not because of AvFILL, but because of the already-existing > synonym, the evilly named "av_len". This name implies it gives a > length, but in fact it is one-off from that. av_top_index, though > cumbersome, accurately indicates what it returns. The problem with av_top_index is that it hat not (yet) been ported to Devel::PPPort, so I cannot change any XS code that uses av_len into using the new function if that XS is to support 5.16.0 or older $ ack av_top_index ppport.h 1225:av_top_index||5.017009| $ I know I didn't quote all of your message and I understand your motivation, but the problem for these misnamed functions is much wider than the scope of av_top_index, which is *only* available to XS, and XS is more or less easy to fix by adding stuff to Devel::PPPort For the utf8 functions, the scope is WAY wider: it is used from pure-perl, and renaming them (with or without aliases) would cause major brain damage for all authors that use these functions (correct or incorrect) when their code has to work on a wide range of perl versions. To be honest, I do not see an easy way out of that dilemma. If you have one, I'm open to change for the better. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using perl5.00307 .. 5.27 porting perl5 on HP-UX, AIX, and openSUSE http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next