On Sat, Feb 11, 2006, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote: > > Not at all. People appear to completely fail to grasp the notion of > "deprecated" in this context. It just means "it may go away in a > future version", implying that the rest of it may *not* go away in a > future version. > > That future version might get published in 2270, when everybody has > switched to C++, and compatibility with C is no longer required.
Just for the clarification of those of us who are not C/C++ programmers, are you saying that this is different from the meaning in Python, where "deprecated" means that something *IS* going away? -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com