On 11/7/12 1:56 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
I know there's been some long term unhappiness about the deprecated
attribute - it's all-or-nothing approach, poor messages, etc. Each
change in it changes the language and the compiler.
Perhaps it could be done with a user defined attribute instead?
Anyone want to take on the challenge?
I don't think that's possible. One would need a mechanism to hook into
all calls to a function (adorned with a specific attribute) and emit the
message during compilation. That is missing.
Andrei
