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I've found this in the source code
```// exposed as public
@PublishedApi
internal fun timer(name: String?, daemon: Boolean) = if (name == null) Timer(daemon) else Timer(name, daemon)```
docs of published contains:
```When applied to a class or a member with internal visibility allows to use it from public inline functions and makes it effectively public.```
the question is: since it's internal why should I care about not making breaking changes to the declaration? It's just there for the purpose of chopping up big public inline functions, no? so published internal inline fun is like a private fun in class, right?

Api consumers can effectively call this by calling a public inline function that calls it. Therefore, modifying the declaration can break binary compatibility.

yeah they `technically` call it because the call in a public inline fun is effectively replaced by the code but still it's not like
`timer("foo", false)`

Why not like? In the generated client code you get exactly `timer("foo", false)` when calling public `timer("foo", ...)` for example.

It won't break source code if you got rid of the function

Im not an expert on the topic of compatibility though