Martin Nilsson (Opera Mini - AFK!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
No, you could still call them. I kept them in because just because it was compatibility with old data, not old code.
Ok, misjudgement from my side then. Are there really permanently stored datastructures that need to be accessed using those old hash functions from Pike 8.2 and beyond?
Stored data is unlikely, there are however old Pike-based RPC-style implementations that expose the hash value in the binary protocol.