Clojure and Pull Request Controversy

[welkam]

On Thursday, 29 November 2018 at 14:11:30 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
>
> I think deprecating the auto decoding free functions with a 
> message to use `.byChar`, `.byDchar`,`.representation` etc. is 
> really the _only_ practical way forward on this. Yes its slow 
> but it won't cause any breakage. Certainly not silent breakage, 
> deprecation being rather noisy.

People dont like braking changes because they add additional work 
for already working code. If we made a tool that would 
automagically translate deprecated usages to newer once it might 
be easier sell to users. The problem is that such tool requires 
work