Deprecations: Any reason left for warning stage?

Daniel Kozák via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Sep 26 14:12:47 PDT 2014


The only one and right solution is print warning message by default

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Od:"David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>
Odesláno:‎26. ‎9. ‎2014 18:20
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Předmět:Deprecations: Any reason left for warning stage?

As Walter mentioned in a recent pull request discussion [1], the 
first formal deprecation protocol we came up with for language 
changes looked something like this:

1. remove from documentation
2. warning
3. deprecation
4. error

(The "remove from documentation" step is a bit questionable, but 
that's not my point here.)

However, in the meantime deprecations were changed to be 
informational by default. You now need to explicitly need to pass 
-de to turn them into errors that halt compilation. Thus, I think 
we should simply get rid of the warning step, just like we (de 
facto) eliminated the "scheduled for deprecation" stage from the 
Phobos process.

Thoughts?

Best,
David


[1] 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4021#issuecomment-56758916
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