Promote DEPRECATE

[0rir]

Perl6::World::DEPRECATED is in 'user' code on github. This offers Raku users more facility than is DEPRECATED by allowing the deprecation-version, elimination-version, and the alternative.

There is no apparent reason that deprecation should be constrained to OO code. And in OO, the direct use of DEPRECATED in Callables can look convenient and clear.

Please promote DEPRECATED from an implementation detail to a roasted item.

[JJ]

Sorry, why is this issue in this repo? Wouldn't either problem-solving or the Rakudo repo itself be a better venue for it?

[0rir]

In my previous, DEPRECATE should be DEPRECATED in every instance. And profiling shows I found the wrong method, the work is done by Rakudo::Deprecations::DEPRECATED. Edits made.

Thanks, @JJ.

I am asking that DEPRECATED's use beyond is DEPRECATED be specified as part of Raku. That usage being like this:

#!/usr/bin/env raku
sub d(--> Str) {
    DEPRECATED(  'Use-me', 'Since', 'Gone', :what('sub d') );
    'd';
}
d();

[JJ]

In that case, I thing problem-solving is the right venue; it's where new features are proposed and discussed. I can move the issue there if you want.

[0rir]

@JJ, Thanks for the education. I'll close here, clean up and move it.