Ticket #2042 (new deprecation)
Deprecate VTABLE_can
Reported by: | whiteknight | Owned by: | cotto |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 3.9 |
Component: | core | Version: | 3.1.0 |
Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Language: | ||
Patch status: | Platform: | all |
Description
VTABLE_can is defined in two places: object.pmc and default.pmc. In both cases, it performs exactly this operation:
return !PMC_IS_NULL(VTABLE_find_method(interp, self, name));
Also, VTABLE_can is not able (yet) to be overridden from PIR code, which means that the vast majority of classes written by users will always have this same exact default behavior.
I suggest we deprecate and remove VTABLE_can. The "can" PIR op can remain, but should call VTABLE_find_method directly.
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