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On 01/31/2017 11:50 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Karl Williamson wrote: >> On 01/29/2017 02:06 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote: >>> see no >>> benefit to deprecating \c` (which I use) and \c:. >> Please explain what any advantages there are in using \c: > There are no advantages to using \c: per se, but there is an advantage > to keeping it working the way it is: it saves running the risk of > breaking code. > > If a feature is to be deprecated, it should be because it (a) prevents > new features from being added, (b) gets in the way of fixing bugs, or > (c) never actually behaved consistently. > > I thought that consensus was reached years ago, so I am surprised we > are having this conversation. > > As far as I can tell, \c` and \c: etc., which we decided not to depre- > cate in 5.14, were just recently deprecated by mistake (due to a mis- > reading of an old delta), in which case it should not require much > consideration for us to revert the unintended change. We discussed this further on IRC. Karl, Leon, and myself all expressed support of keeping it, but still warning about it, even for the sheer value of simply not breaking anything. If at any point this is in the way of any important feature or fix, we could raise it for discussion. Does anyone object to undeprecating this? (But keeping the warning.)Thread Previous | Thread Next