On 15/07/2015 13:39, Joseph Wright wrote: > 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 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