Re: Several questions.

[Dirk Herrmann]

On 22 Apr 2001, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> We need a way to detect from the Scheme level that deprecated features
> should be removed.
> 
> What about introducing three levels of handling deprecated things:
> 
>   silent: support all deprecated features and don't warn about their use.
> 
>   warn: support all deprecated features but warn when they are used.
> 
>   error: do not support deprecated features.
> 
> Because C code is involved in this, the "error" level needs to be
> activated at compile time, while "silent" and "warn" could be selected
> at run time.

Good idea.  We have been in need for better support of deprecated things
on the scheme level for long.  Authors of modules will probably also be
glad to have such an option.

Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann