No, I just meant it would be better to deprecate than remove it. And deprecation can come later. Better still to make it all backwards-compatible as is possible.
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > >> I think it's fine to do a rewrite at this stage. 0.5 sounds like a >> nice goal. Just recall that aspects of this will be 'in print' soon so >> yeah you want to a) plan to deprecate rather than remove the old code >> for some time, > > As much as I look forward to the book, do you really feel it is a good idea > to deprecate code at this stage of the game? > > -Grant
