[dmd-internals] deprecated("message")

[Sean Kelly]

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing today. Vote++

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On Jul 6, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com> wrote:

> 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 { ... }
> 
> 
> Andrei
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