On Jan 18, 2:38 pm, Lee Spector <lspec...@hampshire.edu> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Alan wrote: > > > Deprecated doesn't mean "in future this will stop working" - it means > > "you shouldn't use this". See > > eghttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/deprecate. > > None of those definitions appear to address this technical usage, and in my > experience "deprecated" in this context often does mean "expected to go > away." OTOH if defstruct isn't expected to go away then I'm happy, regardless > of what anyone calls it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation if you prefer. Feel free to use defstructs as much as you like so long as you're aware of what deprecated means (it's not my problem, after all), but I wouldn't encourage them to someone asking for his first program to be reviewed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
