On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, skaller wrote: | | On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 07:59 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > 'deprecated' in the standard does not carry much semantics weight, | > unless the feature is also removed. But, even then we would have to | > worry about existing codes that were written using the feature. That | > is one of the reasons why I'm unsympathetic to proposals before the | > committee to `deprecate' things. | | I think this is the wrong idea. Deprecated does carry a lot | of weight. It allows a new compiler without a legacy | to elide the feature and specify it is ISO compliant | 'minus' the deprecated features, which is quite different | from 'non-compliant'.
Do you know of any of those compilers with user base we can talk to? [...] | Note I'm entirely agreeing with your the first line I quote | from you above, but questioning lack of sympathy with proposals | to deprecate features considered undesirable. I'm just being realistic. Code base don't just vanish overnight because the ISO committee voted to deprecate things. I realize the situation might be different in a totally different, imaginary, perfect world. -- Gaby
