From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Subject: Re: English usage bug in bytecomp.el
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:08:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jkijf2i.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: fc339e4a050308015760de2423@mail.gmail.com
Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com> writes:
> However, a variant which might be even clearer, and maybe less
> objectionable would be "FOO is an obsolete function (since 21.4)".
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
If anyone in this list does not know what deprecated means, please
raise your hand.
If the word deprecated is not known to all, then:
FOO was made obsolete in 21.4
On a different topic, it would be useful if the message indicated a
replacement.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 16:08 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 [this message]
2005-03-08 17:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-08 21:10 ` Nick Roberts
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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