# Copyright (C) 2011, Parrot Foundation. =head1 NAME docs/deprecations/deprecations_3_6.pod - Parrot Deprecations for 3.6 =head1 Parrot Deprecations for 3.6 =head2 Special Purpose NCI Parameter Types The NCI parameter types 'J', '@', 't', '0', 'V', '2', '3', '4', 'B', 'b', 'L', and 'T' have been removed. =head3 Rationale These types are special-purpose and their function can be accomplished by other means. =head3 Replacement =head4 B<'J', '@', 't', '0'> These types accomplish tasks which can be accomplished from PIR and are therefore redundant =over 4 =item 'J' getinterp + pointer NCI types =item '@' slurpy param on a wrapping PIR sub =item 't' manual lifetime management of C string buffer through NCI access to Parrot_str_to_cstring() and Parrot_str_free_cstring() =item '0' null + pointer NCI type =back =head4 B<'V', '2', '3', '4', 'B'> A less type-specific pass-by-reference mechanism is available. See the bindings for pcre_compile() in runtime/parrot/library/pcre.pir for an example of its use. =head4 B<'b', 'L', 'T'> These were poorly documented and were broken in their implementation. No replacement has been provided as these do not represent desirable behaviour. =cut