String.reverse and Deprecations

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

It looks like darbelo++ removed the String.reverse VTABLE as part of the
immutable strings in r46290, but I don't think the deprecation policy was
followed.

The change is not listed in the history of DEPRECATED.pod, nor is it on
http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ParrotDeprecations or
http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/ParrotDeprecationsFor2.6 .

Also, the String.reverse is still documented in our PDD's. The Rakudo people
would really like for a String.reverse vtable to exist, and they have no
problem with it returning the reversed value, instead of it modifying
in-place. They have old code that used it that has now stopped working,
which is why I am sending this email.

Unless someone has a very good reason why String.reverse should not return a
reversed copy, I will add it back in a few days.

Duke


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Jonathan "Duke" Leto
jonathan at leto.net
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