GTK::Simple isn't part of the Rakudo compiler, its use and this thread suggests a demand for DEPRECATED in public Perl6.
Could it become a module for user code to import from? Pros, cons, and what would it take to promote it to a documented routine? Marcel what's your use-case for DEPRECATED? -y On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 8:10 AM Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Brad for the answer, I'll better not use it then. Indeed I found > it interesting because of the version arguments one could pass to the call, > but alas... > > The `DEPRECATED` function is a feature of Rakudo, not Perl6. > Which means that how it works, and even its existence could be changed > without warning. > > It was added so that the compiler and runtime can mark features of itself > as deprecated. > Because of the design of the compiler and runtime, it leaks out into the > userspace. > > It is not in ROAST so it is not Perl6. > `is DEPRECATED` is > https://github.com/perl6/roast/blob/master/S02-types/isDEPRECATED.t > > my $a; > my $awith; > sub a is DEPRECATED { $a++ }; > sub awith is DEPRECATED("'fnorkle'") { $awith++ }; > > The only thing this use of `DEPRECATED` shows, is that `is DEPRECATED` > could use a new feature for indicating versions. > > On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 7:20 AM Marcel Timmerman <mt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Studying GTK::Simple if found about the existence of a routine >> DEPRECATED which I couldn't find in the Perl6 documents. Reading from >> the code I see that it needs 3 arguments, start version of deprecation, >> version when it is removed and a string like in the 'is DEPRECATED()' >> trait. >> >> A use like >> >> sub gtk_builder_add_from_file ( ... ) { >> DEPRECATED( >> 'other multi version of gtk_builder_add_from_file', '0.17.10', >> '0.20.0' >> ); >> ... >> } >> >> >> Gives a result like; >> >> Saw 1 occurrence of deprecated code. >> >> ================================================================================ >> Sub gtk_builder_add_from_file (from Gnome::Gtk3::Builder) seen at: >> /home/marcel/Languages/Perl6/Projects/perl6-gnome-gtk3/../perl6-gnome-native/lib/Gnome/N/X.pm6 >> >> (Gnome::N::X), line 109 >> Deprecated since v0.17.10, will be removed with release v0.20.0! >> Please use other version of gtk_builder_add_from_file instead. >> >> Perhaps it should be added to the docs (or I am look in the wrong spot :-) >> >> Thanks very much for the documentation as it is now >> Regards, >> Marcel >> > >
