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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
May 7, 2021 17:25
Subject:
Re: landing experiments during v5.35.0
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On Tue, May 4, 2021, at 8:24 AM, Arne Johannessen wrote:
> 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.

So far, "experimental perlapi" has been mostly out of scope for "perlexperiment", which is *mostly* but not *entirely* "stuff that generates an expermental-category warning."

I agree we should untangle this mess, but I am not the best person to undertake that.

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rjbs
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