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Deprecate vs. discourage
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Deprecate vs. discourage |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:15:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
I think things like ‘uniform-vector-read’ should be discouraged rather
than deprecated, since it matches the definition in ‘discouraged.h’:
A discouraged feature is one that shouldn't be used in new code
since we have a better alternative now. However, there is nothing
wrong with using the old feature, so it is OK to continue to use
it.
However, discouraged features currently don’t produce any sort of
warning. I would suggest using the same technique as
‘build-aux/link-warning.h’ to issue a link-time warning.
What do you think?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- Deprecate vs. discourage,
Ludovic Courtès <=