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...
Jonathan
