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On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:57:57AM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:00 PM, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> >> Removed in commit 282fc0b3cc2439f69587d980b62bef7f5d5bdfef. They weren't
> >> specifically mentioned in perldelta because they were never part of the
> >> public API.
> >
> > We currently have 323 interpreter variables and AFAIK more than a
> > hundred true globals. Only 28 of them are listed in the perlapi.
>
> Actually my regex was wrong, only 14 are defined (the others were only
> mentioned), 5 of those are explicitly marked as experimental.
Do you have any opinion as to whether more interpeter and globals vars
should be part of the API?
Anyway, since there hasn't been any other reported breakage from
removing these two vars, I intend to remove this ticket from the 5.28
blockers
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