March 6, 2000
2:13 a.m.
[Paul Prescod]
... Could someone remind in one sentence what the downside is for treating this as a warning condition as Java does with its deprecated features?
Simply the lack of anything to build on: Python has no sort of runtime warning system now, and nobody has volunteered to create one. If you do <wink>, remember that stdout & stderr may go to the bit bucket in a GUI app. The bit about dropping the "L" suffix on longs seems unwarnable-about in any case (short of warning every time anyone uses long()). remember-that-you-asked-for-the-problems-not-for-solutions<wink>-ly y'rs - tim