Re: Obsolete functions and variables

[Nick Roberts]

Juanma Barranquero writes:
 > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
 > 
 > >  Removing them, even after many years, could break some programs
 > >  that people have not updated.  Be careful!
 > 
 > I'm nog going to remove any of them. I should confess that my remark
 > was ironic, because I knew Nick was being way too optimistic...

Maybe it was flippant but I don't see any irony.  Perhaps obsolete functions
and variables should only be removed after two major releases.  I guess
the dangers generally outweigh the advantages but there's not much point in
marking them obsolete if they're never going to be removed.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob