On Monday, 3 July 2017 at 16:51:47 UTC, Cym13 wrote:

> I don't get it: how is linking old and unmaintained code "fixing" anything? Dead code is dead, if it's been two years already let it die and fix your own, anything else can't be future-proof.

I don't understand your comment. I'm suggesting a way to ease the transition when deprecated functions are killed off. You appear to be arguing that there shouldn't be a deprecation process - just delete the functions and leave it up to the user to figure out what to do.