Ghosting a language feature

[Avrina]

On Monday, 21 September 2020 at 02:43:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/20/2020 7:38 PM, Avrina wrote:
>> why not just remove it so no one uses it.
>
> Because legacy code will use it. Removing features has been a 
> constant source of irritation to users, and they're right.

Dropping support for the feature is just as irritating, even if 
the feature is still present. You might as well be removing it. 
You are still forcing the user to not use the feature one way or 
another.

What Mike proposes is a better alternative.