Shawn Steele scripsit:
> That's not the definition of Deprecate:
Dictionary definitions of "deprecate" aren't relevant, because it is a term
of art among programmers and standardizers. From Wikipedia:
In computer software standards and documentation, the term
deprecation is applied to software features that are superseded
and should be avoided. Although deprecated features remain
in the current version, their use may raise warning messages
recommending alternate practices, and deprecation may indicate
that the feature will be removed in the future. Features are
deprecated -- rather than being removed -- in order to provide
backward compatibility and give programmers using the feature
time to bring their code into compliance with the new standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deprecation
In our case, however, deprecated tags and subtags remain available for
use indefinitely: we never remove anything. The same is true for
Linnaean species names:
An example in paleontology would be Brontosaurus, a deprecated
term for the genus Apatosaurus.
--
John Cowan http://ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
SAXParserFactory [is] a hideous, evil monstrosity of a class that should
be hung, shot, beheaded, drawn and quartered, burned at the stake,
buried in unconsecrated ground, dug up, cremated, and the ashes tossed
in the Tiber while the complete cast of Wicked sings "Ding dong, the
witch is dead." --Elliotte Rusty Harold on xml-dev
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