From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Deprecate vs. discourage Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:07:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87sk9popdd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878wbka4xc.fsf@gnu.org> <756daca51001271502n6983cee8y91d0a34faa118b27@mail.gmail.com> <87ockf6shr.fsf@gnu.org> <87y6jh7wlw.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1264716499 20081 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2010 22:08:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:08:19 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 28 23:08:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NacX9-000476-Go for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:08:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55430 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NacX9-0004KG-3u for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NacWl-00049p-29 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NacWg-00047p-3F for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52553 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NacWf-00047j-TV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:33314) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NacWf-0001s1-Ac for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NacWW-0003j4-Jl for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:07:36 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:07:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 9 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:V9oekKVn+06DHMTAt3yiAinV40k= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9948 Archived-At: Hi Neil, Neil Jerram writes: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> That’s what had been done for these functions but libguile also supports >> ‘discouraged’ features. > > I never really saw the case for two levels of deprecation > (i.e. `discouraged' and `deprecated'). I thought `deprecated' on its > own was enough. I think I get your point. OTOH, I felt that /deprecating/ ‘uniform-vector-{read-write}’ might be a bit strong, as it will annoy people who’ve been using them even though these functions are harmless. What do you think? Thanks, Ludo’.