Actually I did look at the source, but was just looking for the relevant bits of code rather than perusing the frontmatter.
The main "problem" was just that there are a lot of references to the old lib lying around in various forms of documentation that seemed current. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Stuart Halloway > <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> All the code you are referring to is in clojure.contrib. Note the comment at >> the top of the files: >> >> ;; DEPRECATED in 1.2: Promoted to clojure.java.shell > > At the top of which files? If you mean the library's source code, it's > very likely he didn't read a single line of it -- just installed the > contrib jar along with Clojure and then :required or :used it. > > If something people have been using in version x is deprecated in > later version y, this needs to be announced somewhere more prominently > than in its source code, like, oh, say, the main documentation page. > Better yet, the compiler should say something -- javac emits warnings > if you call a method marked deprecated with Javadoc; maybe we need a > {:deprecated true} meta tag that can be used on defns and that makes > clojure emit warnings when deprecated functions are called? (These can > be printlns to stderr in the same vein as the warnings generated by > (set! *warn-on-reflection* true).) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en