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Deprecated function documentation
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Subject: |
Deprecated function documentation |
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Date: |
Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:21:28 -0500 |
On 17-Dec-2010, Rik wrote:
| All,
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| What should be the fate of the documentation for deprecated functions? My
| initial impulse is to remove it from the manual so that there is no
| temptation to use old functions in new code. The documentation would, of
| course, remain available at the command line if one typed 'help
| old_function_name'.
I agree, the @DOCSTRING entries and any discussion specifically about
these functions should be removed from the manual.
jwe