> On 26 Mar 2015, at 15:12, Luc Fabresse <luc.fabre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2015-03-26 12:04 GMT+01:00 Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com > <mailto:s...@clipperadams.com>>: > Marcus Denker-4 wrote > > It was in the “private” category and as such removed when there where no > > senders anymore after a > > cleanup. > > Ahh, I like that practice! > > I was thinking that the deprecation pragma should be used (to warn users) and > a lint rule added (to help users preparing migration) and then the method > can be safely removed in the next version. > I know that it is fastidious to do so perhaps it is an idea to improve tools > on that front. >
The problem is that it is hard to do when the code changes a lot. e.g. maybe the method even makes no sense conceptually anymore? Private methods are about private implementation details…. keeping a system working with deprecation for private methods I think is near impossible. Marcus