Clojure and Pull Request Controversy

[M.M.]

On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 15:36:48 UTC, welkam wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 14:11:30 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>>
>> I think deprecating the auto decoding free functions with a 
>> message to use `.byChar`, `.byDchar`,`.representation` etc. is 
>> really the _only_ practical way forward on this. Yes its slow 
>> but it won't cause any breakage. Certainly not silent 
>> breakage, deprecation being rather noisy.
>
> People dont like braking changes because they add additional 
> work for already working code. If we made a tool that would 
> automagically translate deprecated usages to newer once it 
> might be easier sell to users. The problem is that such tool 
> requires work

Could such an automated tool be done, in principle, for handling 
autodecode in existing code?