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Discussion: those internal macros reside in public API headers

Added by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) almost 4 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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A while ago I merged https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2991 ("Split ruby.h"). This seems working. But the changeset raised several questions.

The biggest one relates to those newly publicised macros and inline functions. For instance RUBY3_STATIC_ASSERT is a macro that expands to either _Static_assert (for C) or static_assert (for C++). A similar mechanism has been implemented inside of our repository for a while. The pull request moved the definition around to be visible outside.

Discussion #1

Is it a good idea or a bad idea, to make them visible worldwide?

Discussion #2

Why not publicise everything? For instance debuggers could benefit from ruby internal symbols.

Discussion #3

It is relatively hard for us to change public APIs (doing so could break 3rd party gems). We don't want that happen for internal APIs. How do we achieve future flexibility?

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