deprecate deprecated?

[Don Clugston]

On 07/11/12 00:56, 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?

That *cannot* fix the problem.
The problem is not with the deprecated attribute at all, it's with the 
command line switches.