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* Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> [2022-01-30 20:35:30 -0800]: > On 2022-01-30 4:26 p.m., Felipe Gasper wrote: > > perldelta describes its ?Internal Changes? section thus: ?Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here.? The interface for XS modules is just Perl?s C API. By definition, isn?t an API external-facing? > > > > By that logic, changes like Paul?s new sv_numeq and sv_streq (and my proposed change to sv_dump() to output hex rather than octal) don?t really seem like ?internal? changes. > > > > Would it perhaps be more sensible to make a separate section named ?C API Changes?, then reserve ?Internal Changes? for those updates that are indeed purely internal to Perl? > > I agree with this proposal. Whatever APIs XS uses are "external", while > changes to Perl that don't affect any API are "internal". -- Darren Duncan Looking at the perldeltas (seem to be rightly, just on .0 versions), it seems like it's a mixed bag historically. https://perldoc.perl.org/perl So maybe the "ask" is to break them into subsections? The section might more rightly be called "Internals", since this is often an overloaded term. Cheers, Brett -- -- oodler@cpan.org oodler577@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org irc.perl.org #openmp #pdl #nativeThread Previous