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-<?php
-
-/**
- * @file
- * Functions and interfaces for cache handling.
- */
-
-use Drupal\Core\Cache\Cache;
-
-/**
- * Instantiates and statically caches the correct class for a cache bin.
- *
- * By default, this returns an instance of the Drupal\Core\Cache\DatabaseBackend
- * class.
- *
- * Classes implementing Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface can register
- * themselves both as a default implementation and for specific bins.
- *
- * @param $bin
- *   The cache bin for which the cache object should be returned, defaults to
- *   'cache'.
- *
- * @return \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface
- *   The cache object associated with the specified bin.
- *
- * @see \Drupal\Core\Cache\CacheBackendInterface
- *
- * @deprecated in Drupal 8.x-dev, will be removed before Drupal 8.0.
- *   Use \Drupal::cache().
- */
-function cache($bin = 'cache') {
-  return \Drupal::cache($bin);
-}
-
-/**
- * Marks cache items from all bins with any of the specified tags as invalid.
- *
- * Many sites have more than one active cache backend, and each backend my use
- * a different strategy for storing tags against cache items, and invalidating
- * cache items associated with a given tag.
- *
- * When invalidating a given list of tags, we iterate over each cache backend,
- * and call invalidateTags() on each.
- *
- * @param array $tags
- *   The list of tags to invalidate cache items for.
- *
- * @deprecated in Drupal 8.x-dev, will be removed before Drupal 8.0.
- *   Use \Drupal\Core\Cache\Cache::invalidateTags().
- */
-function cache_invalidate_tags(array $tags) {
-  Cache::invalidateTags($tags);
-}