On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:36:52AM -0700, jn...@jnthn.net via RT wrote: > On Sun Mar 15 15:27:41 2009, moritz wrote: > > S12-objects.pod > > 1581: WHAT the protoobject of the type, stringifies to short > > name ~ '()' > > > > Currently it stringfies to short name without trailing (). > > > > If somebody submits a patch for it, I'll fix the test suite (which has > > this wrong in many places, I fear; used to be different). > > I'm happy to put one in after the next release. However, since this > affects compiler toolkit level stuff too (at least in the obvious way > that we'd do it), do we need a deprecation notice/cycle in Parrot for > this? Ideally people won't have been relying on .WHAT to do string > comparisons to check what things are since it's a Really Bad Idea, so > IMO we don't...
There's already a deprecation notice for this in Parrot -- see https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/168 . I just haven't gotten around to completing the deprecation yet. Pm
