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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Eval options macro: backward compatibility?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:48:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tzyiwzwv.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B4C7A0.5020302@xs4all.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Mon,  22 Jan 2007 15:18:08 +0100")

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:
>
> does this also mean that we can (finally!) summarily throw away anything 
> that is marked as "deprecated GUILE 1.7" ? 

The short answer would be no, much too soon.  The whole idea of
discouraged etc is really bad.  Forcing everyone to change their
programs is terrible.  Unless an interface is utterly hopeless the
best thing is to leave it alone.


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-19 15:24 Eval options macro: backward compatibility? Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-20 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2007-01-22 14:18   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-22 20:48     ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2007-01-23  0:51       ` deprecated features Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-23  1:03         ` Kevin Ryde
2007-01-23  1:20           ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-23 14:50             ` Bruce Korb
2007-01-23 22:45               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-23 23:20                 ` Bruce Korb
2007-01-24  0:44                   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-24  0:10                     ` Bruce Korb
2007-01-23 23:10               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-23 23:35                 ` Bruce Korb
2007-01-24  0:38                   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-24 22:44             ` Kevin Ryde
2007-01-22 15:28   ` Eval options macro: backward compatibility? Han-Wen Nienhuys
2007-01-22 20:50   ` Kevin Ryde
2007-01-24 21:05 ` Kevin Ryde

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