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On 15/07/2015 13:39, Joseph Wright wrote:
> On 15/07/2015 13:32, Alexander Grahn wrote:
>> Good afternoon.
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>> According to
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>> http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk/l3kernel/l3obsolete.txt
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>> both functions were removed from the sources on 2011-09-08 (SVN 2786).
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>> Yet, they are still alive and documented in interface3.pdf. Are they on
>> the list by error? And if they are obsolete, which functions are meant
>> to replace them?
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>> Alexander
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> Ah, a tricky one :-)
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> These functions were first in expl3 many years ago (I'd have to check
> the logs for when they were first added). We had a tidy up and they were
> removed whilst the cycle for deprecation was not as defined as it is
> now. However, we later realised that as part of the now-current
> interface for this area, \io(r|w)_new:N should be restored with a
> different implementation.
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> Probably it is clearest if they are not in the obsolete list as a
> result: I'll remove them.
> --
> Joseph Wright
I should add that the timing here might look a bit odd as the 'old'
versions were deprecated some time before they were removed. The latter
coincided with when we revisited that area!
--
Joseph Wright
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