Re: Obsolete functions and variables

[Nick Roberts]

 >       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.
 > 
 > I think that is incorrect.  It is useful to urge people to make their
 > code use more modern interfaces regardless of whether we ever delete
 > the old ones.

In that case, perhaps the macros should have been called
define-deprecated-variable-alias and define-deprecated-function-alias.  The
word obsolete has a pretty clear meaning and is misleading when used in this
way.

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