Proposal on improvement to deprecated

[Paul D Anderson]

Michel Fortin Wrote:

> 
> In all this, my opinion is that 'deprecated' should be changed to emit 
> informational messages (not errors) by default. Then you have this:
> 
> 1. scheduled for deprecation: documentation only
> 2. deprecated: informational message
> 3. unavailable: compilation error
> 
> The scheduled for deprecation step would be mostly for things we know 
> will be deprecated but that have no suitable replacement at the moment.
> 
> -- 
> Michel Fortin
> michel.fortin at michelf.com
> http://michelf.com/
> 

I like the idea of a deprecation message and the three-level progression.

I'm not certain 'unavailable' is the best term but I like this idea better than the hard and soft distinction. 3 levels: documentation, deprecated, and, um, unavailable.

A quick look at MS Word thesaurus offers these alternatives:

denounced, condemned, censured, denigrated,... hmmm... maybe 'unavailabe' is not so bad.

Extinct? Destroyed? Dead? Vanished? Or, that old standby 'depreciated'?

Paul