[dmd-internals] deprecated("message")

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I was hoping to figure out whether Walter or Don would be interested in 
implementing this prior to posting on the newsgroup.

Andrei

On 07/06/2010 07:59 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>
>
> Andrei Alexandrescu, el  6 de julio a las 17:58 me escribiste:
>> I think we need an optional message with deprecated. Most of the
>> time something is deprecated in favor of an alternative artifact,
>> and deprecated makes it impossible to point to that.
>>
>> Because of that, I've been resorting to pragma(msg, "xxx") and
>> static assert(false, "xxx") to provide guidance. Both leave a lot to
>> be desired and have no integration with deprecated.
>>
>> So I'm proposing this:
>>
>> deprecated("You may want to use StaticMap")
>> template staticMap { ... }
>
> This is not DMD-specific (or are you really proposing it as a DMD-only
> extension?), so I guess it should be in the general group.
>