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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
May 4, 2021 13:43
Subject:
Re: landing experiments during v5.35.0
Message ID:
2edb0875-9b3b-790b-722d-874cb48cdb57@khwilliamson.com
On 5/4/21 6:24 AM, Arne Johannessen wrote:
> Ricardo Signes wrote on 30 April on p5p:
>>
>> https://github.com/Perl/perl5/labels/experiment
>>
>> [...] On the other hand, if you believe we have other things that are called experimental but not listed there, let me know.
> 
> 
> FWIW, there are numerous perlapi functions that are currently marked "experimental". Here's a list:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/johannessen/a3b6c416b507d7230344cc6cf995bc9f
> 
> Some of these have been "experimental" for a long time, for example bytes_to_utf8 since 5.7.0.

I asked years ago about that particular function, along with others, and 
got no response as to why it was experimental.


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