deprecate deprecated?

[voiceofreason]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at 23:56:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I know there's been some long term unhappiness about the 
> deprecated attribute - it's all-or-nothing approach, poor 
> messages, etc. Each change in it changes the language and the 
> compiler.
>
> Perhaps it could be done with a user defined attribute instead?
>
> Anyone want to take on the challenge?

Good plan. On a side note when can we expect some progress on 
stabilizing the language and fixing ~2000 bugs? After a couple of 
more random unnecessary breaking changes, or do you anticipate it 
happening before that?