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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Add Deprecated aspect to Ada 2020
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 18:52:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2017-08-19, Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure plenty of people have libs where certain parts have been deprecated over time. It would be a nice addition to have an aspect to say this and emit a custom warning when it's used.
>
>    function A return B with
>      Deprecated => "Will be removed in version x.y.z, please use C instead.";

You may want to re-think the wording of that example text. :-)

[Sorry, but I couldn't resist. :-)]

Simon.

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