Re: [RFC] [Discussion] #[\Deprecated] attribute again v1.3

Sent from my iPhone > On 26 Apr 2024, at 22:06, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> wrote: > >  > >> On 26 April 2024 09:40:57 BST, Mike Schinkel <mike@newclarity.net> wrote: >> >> Given a lack of agreed definition for 'since' it appears you are using narrow >> assumptions about the meaning of 'since' that led you to view 'since' as >> useless. > > I can't see any ambiguity in the definition: "This function has been deprecated since > version 7.2" seems a straightforward English sentence, meaning that before 7.2 it wasn't > deprecated, and from that version onward it is. > > If there's some alternative reading of it, it's not that I'm assuming it > doesn't apply, it's that I'm completely unaware of what it might be. > > Regards, > Rowan Tommins > [IMSoP] > I'd even go so far as to suggest that "since" is so commonly understood that we don't need the "This function has been " and "version " parts, and could simply write: #[Deprecated(since: '7.2')] and have it be understood by humans and tooling alike.