On 2010-10-11, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]_zealand> wrote: > In message <[email protected]>, Seebs wrote: >> ... but I wasn't aware that it had been deprecated, except in the sense of >> being derided and dismissed as of no value.
> What more did you want? :) Well, formal "deprecation" in the language standards sense, as in, "warning, we will be removing this from future versions of this language". There's a difference between something like gets() or tempnam(), where some compilers will refuse to link programs which call them, and something like scanf(), where I've never heard of a compiler doing anything of the sort. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / [email protected] http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
