On Jan 15, 2004, at 2:14 AM, Jabez Wilson wrote: [..]
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Forgive my ignorance, but in this context what does "deprecated" actually mean?
as most have noted, 'deprecated' denotes that while the "foo" will function in this release it is no longer considered good form, and may well be removed in any of the coming releases.
In the particular case you raised, it would mean that while there are those who have done this trick, and you too may be one of them, it is a trick that is now considered garish and grotesque and will make people look at your code and say rude things at you, or worse yet, that it will stop working soon.
When one notices that "deprecated" is used in documentation about code that means it is time to go back and refactor any code you had that used that trick so as to be safer in subsequent releases.
ciao drieux
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