I've skimmed all of the ops in our .ops files, and here are my recommendations
for deprecations. This is a first pass, so I may have missed a few ops we
don't need (especially variants), and I may recommend removing something you
use, so let's consider this a work in progress:
How often do we use the bitwise ops?
- could they become functions?
- multidispatch functions?
- means pulling them out of vtables, which doesn't hurt my feelings
Do we still use prederef__?
Ops to remove:
set_addr/get_addr
pushmark/popmark/pushaction
exchange
set[insp]_ind
clear[insp]
bytelength
sizeof
Ops we could make into methods:
schedule
addhandler
debug
bounds
profile
trace
gc_debug
interpinfo
getstdin / getstdout / getstderr
spawnw (make into a Proc object with methods?)
time* (make into a Time object with methods?)
sysinfo (make into a Sys object with methods?)
Debug ops:
- most of these could be methods on a debugger object
- getline/getfile can possibly stay
Experimental ops:
- drop all except iter, exec, find_sub_not_null
Math ops:
- ceil/floor
- transcendental ops
- gcd/lcm/fact
Object ops:
- could add/remove parent become class methods?
Obscure ops:
- remove
PIC ops:
- remove
-- c
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