On 13/03/17 12:15, Andrew Dinn wrote: > On 12/03/17 09:55, Andrew Haley wrote: >> Oh, absolutely, I know about that. I was just wondering why now, and >> is this something you just came up with, and are we going to have the >> compatibility discussion? > > Perhaps now is the chosen moment (and a good choice at that, I say) > because deprecation in release N is necessary to allow removal or > modification of semantics in release N+k, k >= 1. So, rather N == 10 > than N == 9 (n.b. in this case, I strongly suspect that inequality on k > will not actually encompass the equals case).
Oops, obviously I meant: So, rather N == 9 than N == 10 regards, Andrew Dinn ----------- Senior Principal Software Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903 Directors: Michael Cunningham, Michael ("Mike") O'Neill, Eric Shander