C standard libraries

[Timothee Cour]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:52 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at 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.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/digitalmars-d-learn/attachments/20130710/cec465b0/attachment-0001.html>