<> and DeprecationWarning

[Richard Brodie]

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.263.1066669744.2192.python-list at python.org...

> In the context of discussions about '<>', I think "obsolecent" and
> "deprecated" mean roughly the same thing, though "deprecated" suggests a
> more formal notion.  In Python, if a language feature is deprecated, there
> is generally a specified sunset period.  As Barry suggests, even though '<>'
> is obsolescent, it's likely to be around for a long while.

In Fortran, it's the other way round. Heinous constructs like computed
GOTOs are obsolesecent in Fortran 90 and removed in Fortran 95,
whilst COMMON blocks are merely deprecated.

As you suggest, the subtle distinctions that may exist probably have to give
way to locally accepted usage.