Michel Fortin Wrote: > > In all this, my opinion is that 'deprecated' should be changed to emit > informational messages (not errors) by default. Then you have this: > > 1. scheduled for deprecation: documentation only > 2. deprecated: informational message > 3. unavailable: compilation error > > The scheduled for deprecation step would be mostly for things we know > will be deprecated but that have no suitable replacement at the moment. > > -- > Michel Fortin > [email protected] > http://michelf.com/ >
I like the idea of a deprecation message and the three-level progression. I'm not certain 'unavailable' is the best term but I like this idea better than the hard and soft distinction. 3 levels: documentation, deprecated, and, um, unavailable. A quick look at MS Word thesaurus offers these alternatives: denounced, condemned, censured, denigrated,... hmmm... maybe 'unavailabe' is not so bad. Extinct? Destroyed? Dead? Vanished? Or, that old standby 'depreciated'? Paul
