[Python-Dev] Re: Deprecation

[Guido van Rossum]

> Well, personally I think it would be great if every release silently
> suppressed deprecation warnings for code older than the release. So
> it would only need to know its own release date. But I've made the
> suggestion before, so apparently nobody thinks this is a sensible
> way to achieve "silent deprecation".

I think it would defeat the purpose.  Plus, how do you determine the
age?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)