[debbugs-tracker] bug#19483: closed (25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords')

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`font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #19483,
regarding 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt 
`font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
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> 25.0.50; out-of-date doc and Commentary in `font-lock' wrt `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'
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> Thu, 1 Jan 2015 14:25:33 -0800 (PST)
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> `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete
> since 24.1.  But in font-lock.el, the code, multiple doc strings, and
> the Commentary all rely on it.
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> Something is not up to date, it seems.  Whatever that is, it should have
> been taken care of at the same time that this variable was declared
> obsolete.  That's 4 releases ago, now.  As of Emacs 25.1, it will be 5
> releases overdue.
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> In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-10-20 on LEG570
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> Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
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> > `C-h v font-lock-syntactic-keywords' says that the variable is obsolete
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> That's right.
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> > But in font-lock.el, the code, multiple doc strings, and
> > the Commentary all rely on it.
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> No, they just keep supporting it, because it's only "obsolete" and not
> "removed".
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> Do you really want to advocate we remove features right away when we
> decide they're obsolete?
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>         Stefan
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