[phobos] std.string deprecations

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, February 11, 2012 12:10:47 Martin Nowak wrote:
> So adding special deprecation messages for aliases wouldn't get us very far
> because the cases of a simple move are rare?

Well, it would be nice, but I wouldn't expect it to be all that useful in 
general. Pretty much the only time that we've just renamed functions is to fix 
camelcasing, and we've done almost all of that. The few that we might change 
that I'm aware of (e.g. the functions in std.string which still aren't 
properly camelcased are those which use patterns, and there was some 
discussion of replacing them with versions which used std.regex instead) 
involve more than just fixing the casing. So, deprecated aliases aren't likely 
to be very common in Phobos.

Also, if/once deprecated is improved to take a message as has been previously 
discussed, there would be no need to special case aliases. You could just put 
the information in the deprecation message like you would with any other 
deprecation.

- Jonathan M Davis