On 15/07/2015 13:32, Alexander Grahn wrote: > Good afternoon. > > According to > > http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk/l3kernel/l3obsolete.txt > > both functions were removed from the sources on 2011-09-08 (SVN 2786). > > 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? > > Alexander Ah, a tricky one :-) 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. Probably it is clearest if they are not in the obsolete list as a result: I'll remove them. -- Joseph Wright