Let's talk about deprecations

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 3 July 2017 at 16:51:47 UTC, Cym13 wrote:

> I don't get it: how is linking old and unmaintained code 
> "fixing" anything? Dead code is dead, if it's been two years 
> already let it die and fix your own, anything else can't be 
> future-proof.

I don't understand your comment. I'm suggesting a way to ease the 
transition when deprecated functions are killed off. You appear 
to be arguing that there shouldn't be a deprecation process - 
just delete the functions and leave it up to the user to figure 
out what to do.