From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: English usage bug in bytecomp.el Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:10:56 +1300 Message-ID: <16942.5344.236292.7450@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <877jkijf2i.fsf@olgas.newt.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110318806 28224 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 21:53:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:53:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 22:53:25 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mZh-0004Af-EM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:49:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8moF-0006V9-Az for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:04:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8mf5-0003tW-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8meo-0003jw-Bl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8men-0003eh-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:54:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.67] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8mKf-0006SD-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:33:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.37.101.8] (helo=viper.snap.net.nz) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8m0v-0008Sy-Tz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:13:14 -0500 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p132-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.132]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184F148FA3A; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 10:13:07 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id BCFCB62FC2; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:10:56 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Bill Wohler In-Reply-To: <877jkijf2i.fsf@olgas.newt.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.7 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34343 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34343 > 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