That's an extremely good point, Peter. I do not think that Buffers are user-visible and require a deprecation period.
--Andrew Whitworth On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Peter Lobsinger <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Peter Lobsinger <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:29 AM > Subject: Re: Deprecate Buffers. > To: Vasily Chekalkin <[email protected]> > > > Why do they even need deprecation? Are they user visible somehow? > > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Vasily Chekalkin <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Currently we have STRING and Buffers as one of core GCable objects. >> Buffers were introduced long time ago, before ByteBuffer PMC. At this >> point of Buffers used only in Packfiles and can be easiliy replaced >> with BytBuffer. >> >> I would like to deprecate Buffers. It will simplify life of ony GC >> implementors (e.g. me with gc_massacre), cleanup code, decrease >> maintenance cost, etc. >> >> -- >> Bacek >> _______________________________________________ >> http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev > _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
