Re: Handling deprecated features

[Marius Vollmer]

Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:

> OK, I think this is a good argument.  But in this case, please can we
> have a consistent relationship between environment variables and the
> (xxx-options) interfaces?  For example, one possibility would be for
> all the options interfaces to initialize themselves at init time
> according to the values of corresponding environment variables:
> 
>     (let ((val (getenv "GUILE_XXX_OPTIONS")))
>       (if val
>           (xxx-options-interface val)))

Good idea.  This is a separate can of worms, however.  I don't want to
delay the deprecation warnings because of this.


We probably should extend the module system so that warnings can be
issued when a deprecated binding is looked up the first time.  That
way, the warnings work also for bindings that are not functions.
Can't the GNU linker do something like that as well?