From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: English usage bug in bytecomp.el
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:10:56 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16942.5344.236292.7450@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877jkijf2i.fsf@olgas.newt.com>
> That's not too bad, although I prefer the "has been" variant. Here is
> yet another using a fairly simple past tense with a word that might
> not be known to non-programmers:
>
> FOO was deprecated in 21.4
>
Yes, this a good point. Obsolete generally means that it has been removed from
the code cannot be used but the that doesn't appear to be the case
here. Deprecated (at least in the programming world/US) means that it can
still be used but it will become obsolete shortly.
Perhaps the directory emacs/lisp/obsolete should be renamed
emacs/lisp/deprecated, make-obsolete-variable -> make-deprecated-variable etc
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 21:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-07 20:17 English usage bug in bytecomp.el Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-07 23:09 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 8:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2005-03-08 8:49 ` Nick Roberts
2005-03-08 10:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-08 11:45 ` Nick Roberts
2005-03-08 9:57 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 10:33 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-08 15:37 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2005-03-08 16:08 ` Bill Wohler
2005-03-08 17:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-08 21:10 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-03-08 22:15 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 22:36 ` Bill Wohler
2005-03-09 16:59 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-09 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-09 9:49 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-09 10:22 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-08 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-09 3:12 ` Richard Stallman
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