Connor wrote: > I'm of the opinion that if there is a supported feature with no plans for > deprecation > or removal, it should be documented. Even if it's not widely used, it's still > supported with (as you said) no plans for removal. reply via email to
I'm of the opinion that the feature in question *is* deprecated and is *not* supported, and could be removed at some future date. It is just that there are no plans to do - at the moment. This is how deprecation works. You take as long as it takes to get people to stop using it (*), and then at some point you pull the trigger. Or, you never do, depending... But I get what you are saying - that it is just frustrating, at some gut level, to know about a feature and not be able to read about it in the documentation. But I think we have no choice but to live with that frustration. By the way - and completely changing the subject - but why do we have both $[] and $(())? They seem to be exactly the same. (*) Think gets(3)... ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. When responding to my posts, please try to refrain from giving bureaucratic answers. If you have nothing useful to say, then just click Next and go on.
