## Copyright (C) 2005 Bill Denney
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
## any later version.
##
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##
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## 02110-1301, USA.

## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Function File} {} __warn_deprecated__ (@var{depfxn}, @var{newfxn})
## Issue a warning that the function @var{depfxn} is deprecated in favor
## of @var{newfxn}.
## @end deftypefn

## Author: bsd

function retval = __warn_deprecated__ (depfxn, newfxn)

  ws = warning ("octave:deprecated",
		"%s: %s is deprecated, please use %s instead",
		depfxn, depfxn, newfxn);
  if (nargout == 1)
    retval = ws;
  endif
endfunction