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I have worked on codebases where the deprecated annotation lasted years in the wild. Marking something as deprecated does almost nothing to make it possible to
by zaphar 10y ago
I have worked on codebases where the deprecated annotation lasted years in the wild. Marking something as deprecated does almost nothing to make it possible to remove code. It doesn't even do all that much to prevent new uses most of the time.
Preventing it in the first place is a much more effective method.
- evincarofautumn 10y agoSure, my comment is only meaningful if someone bothers to fix the warnings. Before Vendan’s comment I didn’t know that Go doesn’t have warnings, so it’s moot anyway. I was thinking in terms of upgrading a library to a newer version. It’s nice to at least get warnings for everything you’ll need to update, even if it doesn’t make it any easier to actually do so.
- zaphar 10y agoYeah. Part of the problem that Go attempts to fix is exactly this. They just make it fail to compile if you don't update your code. In a large monolithic repository this is easier to police and manage. In the rest of the world not so much.