On Feb 27, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
And in that case we did consider users: although the concatenation of __FUNCTION__ wasn't documented, it emitted a deprecation warning in the 3.0, 3.1/3.2 and 3.3 release series before being removed in 3.4.
But, you'll agree that this is an exception. Usually deprecated features carry warning for one release (series?) only.
- Devang