Originally Posted by Talyrius
I fail to understand the rationale behind continuing to make getglobal() an exception to this.
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Originally Posted by TSquared
The getglobal() is there so that old addons won't get arbitrarily busted. While there is a small over-head to using it, it's probably not noticeable in most addons.
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It's just a matter of not breaking things for the sake of breaking things, the difference between this and API changes is that API changes happen out of necessity (the vast majority of the time, at least) and maintaining backwards compatibility there is a lot harder.
It's a three line function, the only benefit from removing it is any addons using it won't be subject to function call overhead. The downsides are that any addons which do use it, regardless of why, will be broken. Downsides outweigh the upsides, and that's what I'd wager the rationale is behind the decision.
Of course they could change their mind after they see this discussion, who knows
