Am 01.10.2020 um 15:06 hat Eric Blake geschrieben: > On 10/1/20 5:35 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > > We deprecated "?" more than eight years ago. We didn't have a > > deprecation process back then, but we did purge "?" from the > > documentation and from help texts. Can we finally drop it? > > > > I'm asking because there is a patch on the list that bypasses > > is_help_option() to not add deprecated "?" to a new place: "[PATCH v2 > > 1/4] keyval: Parse help options". > > > > Did we ever issue a warning when it was used? It's easier to argue that > it can be dropped if users had notice of some form or another. That > said, I'm not heartbroken if we yank it immediately instead of letting > it live for 2 more releases.
A deprecation warning for a help option would somehow feel strange. I would consider this a human-only interface that can be changed at will, like HMP syntax. Kevin
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