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On 2007-06-23, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, usually, deprecated functions are broken in some way - but we
> couldn't just remove them or fix them, as that would break programs
> using them. So, in order to not break compatibility, we marked them as
> "DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION ANY LONGER" for new code (by making them
> deprecated and remove them from the docs)
That reminds me, removing the documentation of deprecated functions was
a bad idea. Especially if you're trying to transition from the old
function to the new, you'd want to be able to look them up.
Peter