On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:44:10 PM UTC+1, Travis Scrimshaw wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 10:10:22 AM UTC-5, Volker Braun wrote:
>>
>> IMHO it would be best to not have deprecated methods in the tab 
>> completion to start with.
>>
>
> I strongly disagree with this as it defeats half the purpose of 
> deprecation. If suddenly a function/method I was working with (and had a 
> long name that I never remembered or was not lazy enough to type out) 
> suddenly doesn't appear under tab completion. I would think the function is 
> no longer in Sage and would have no idea what it was replaced by.
>

Presumably the old method is being replaced by one that is better named. So 
if you can't recall the old name then it should be easier to find the new 
one than finding the old one and then following the deprecation link. Of 
course that assumes that the deprecation was actually an improvement ;-)


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