[Cuis] Use of #deprecated: and/or #deprecatedExplanation:

[Germán Arduino]

I saw the use in the way, for example:

drawAxis: aBoolean
 self deprecatedExplanation: 'use #shouldDrawAxis: instead'.
self shouldDrawAxis: aBoolean

but nothing that can not be replaced by a comment, imho.




2013/12/28 Ken Dickey <Ken.Dickey at whidbey.com>

> On Sat, 28 Dec 2013 03:46:33 -0800
> Casey Ransberger <casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Since back compat isn't a strong goal in Cuis, and we're more generally
> just inclined to rip stuff that isn't absolutely required out, I'd argue
> that we don't really need this.
>
> Not only that, but you can specify a requirement for an older version and
> a revision range where things do work.  Since this includes the base image,
> we can still safely share packages.
>
> One of the motivations for both Cuis and Pharo to drop backward
> compatibility is to lessen the drag on forward progress.  Cuis
> (Comprehensible Uniform Incremental Simple :^) into conciseness and
> scalable Morphic(3) and Pharo into professional, systematically rational
> introspective tools.
>
> It is good not to create arbitrary differences in dialect and to be
> conscious of where others are different and why, but the joy of evolution
> has its own imperative.  Useful aspects can be imaginatively created in any
> dialect and if really useful and not discordant will be picked up by others
> as makes sense.  But we must be free to experiment with new viewpoints.
>
> I am basically a bottom-up tinkerer and incrementalist.  Some people can
> conceive of the grand plan, plan out the details, and just build it.  One
> of the joys of Smalltalk is the ability to aim for a direction, explore and
> try out a bunch of solutions and evolve toward goals rather than having to
> pre-plan and build toward goals.
>
> For me it has to be simple enough to play around, have fun, learn, and
> produce things I think beautiful, or at least pretty.  I hope my code will
> be useful, but if it is not fun I will not get there.
>
> Anyway, I depricate #depricated.
>
> $0.02,
> -KenD
>
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Germán Arduino
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