On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 12:52:49 UTC, bearophile wrote:
> Adam D. Ruppe:
>
>> The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the old names before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe they haven't fully deprecated it though because there's other reasons I don't know about, since it has been many years now since the move.
>
> In D/Phobos/Dmd there is a ton of stuff that's supposed to be
> obsolete, that should not be used, that is deprecated, etc. I
> presume Walter thinks that the problems caused from keeping it
> and from unwanted usages of it, is smaller than the breaking
> troubles caused by removing it. I am person that likes to keeps
> things ordered and clean, so I prefer to remove old stuff after a
> suitable deprecation period, instead of keeping it around almost
> forever (like floating point special comparison operators).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

I agree.

Also the website needs updating to deter people from using std.c:
http://dlang.org/phobos/#stdio

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:52 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:

> Adam D. Ruppe:
>
>
>  The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the old names
>> before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe they haven't fully deprecated it though because there's other reasons I don't know about, since it has been many years now since the move.
>>
>
> In D/Phobos/Dmd there is a ton of stuff that's supposed to be obsolete, that should not be used, that is deprecated, etc. I presume Walter thinks that the problems caused from keeping it and from unwanted usages of it, is smaller than the breaking troubles caused by removing it. I am person that likes to keeps things ordered and clean, so I prefer to remove old stuff after a suitable deprecation period, instead of keeping it around almost forever (like floating point special comparison operators).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>


at the very least it should go in http://dlang.org/deprecate.html even if there's no timeline for deprecation (or even if it will never be deprecated) This should be the ONE destination to find out deprecated stuff or discouraged stuff.