> Given the litany of deprecation markers applied to existing APIs, one must presume the intention of removing them, no? No! That would be a basic violation of

> Given the litany of deprecation markers applied to existing APIs, one must presume the intention of removing them, no? No! That would be a basic violation of the compatibility promise that we've upheld since 1.0. Are you going to criticize C for marking gets() as deprecated?