I'm new to protobuf and I'd very much like to have *obsolete* as a part of 
protobuf grammar. (Unless I am missing something)

On Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 3:31:00 AM UTC-8, Mike Reed wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Would it not be better to introduce a new "field rule" called "obsolete" 
> rather than a convention of prefixing a field name with "OBSOLETE_".  This 
> would mean that the code generator can check you do not re-use the tag but 
> will not actually generate any code for the obsolete field.
> Apologies if someone has already suggested this.  I did search the forums 
> but found nothing.
> Mike.
>

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