On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:52 AM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe: > > > The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the old names >> before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe they haven't fully >> deprecated it though because there's other reasons I don't know about, >> since it has been many years now since the move. >> > > In D/Phobos/Dmd there is a ton of stuff that's supposed to be > obsolete, that should not be used, that is deprecated, etc. I > presume Walter thinks that the problems caused from keeping it > and from unwanted usages of it, is smaller than the breaking > troubles caused by removing it. I am person that likes to keeps > things ordered and clean, so I prefer to remove old stuff after a > suitable deprecation period, instead of keeping it around almost > forever (like floating point special comparison operators). > > Bye, > bearophile > at the very least it should go in http://dlang.org/deprecate.html even if there's no timeline for deprecation (or even if it will never be deprecated) This should be the ONE destination to find out deprecated stuff or discouraged stuff.
