Ghosting a language feature

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Sep 21 08:09:27 UTC 2020


On 9/20/2020 9:30 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I'd even go as far as saying that after a deprecation period of a
> suitable length, we should just remove the documentation altogether, but
> just stop short of actually removing the feature.  That way, old code
> will continue to work, but new code will stop using it because people
> won't find the documentation for it anymore.

Having secret undocumented features just winds up irritating people.


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