Against deprecating aliases

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-09-28 21:56, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Having toUTF and toUTFz is a marked improvement in many cases - especially for
> generic code. They're being added regardless of what the deal with toUTF16z
> is.
>
> The reason that toUTF16z is being removed is essentially because Andrei is
> very much opposed to having functions with specific types in their names and
> thinks that they should all be generic. Personally, I'm not opposed to keeping
> toUTF16z as an alias or wrapper to toUTFz. It's Andrei that seems to feel
> stongly about it. So, if enough people really want to keep toUTF16z, then I
> think that that can happen.

Seems a bit arbitrary what gets deprecated with the old API left in 
place and what gets deprecated with the old API removed.

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/Jacob Carlborg