(j3.2006) Annex B title

[Malcolm Cohen]

"deprecated" is not the right word - it implies that the features are 
still in the standard (the deleted ones are not) and that we are just 
disparaging them.

It's also slightly confusing to those of us with long memories...

I agree that "decremental" doesn't say much - therein lies its charm.  
Bill's second suggestion of "Deleted and obsolescent features", using 
the exact same wording we use at [25:39] strikes me as reasonable.  And 
maybe we should rewrite the sentences around 25:43 to avoid "outmoded 
features" too.

This doesn't need a whole paper on its own, I can put it into one of my 
editorial change papers...

Cheers,
-- 
.....................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.


Bill Long wrote:
> Alternatives might include:
>
> 1) "Outmoded features", which is the word we use at [25:43].
>
> 2) "Deleted and obsolescent features", which is the wording we use at
> [25:39].
>
> Option 2 very clearly parallels the content of the Annex.
>
> An argument for replacing "decremental" is that is appears only in the
> Annex, lacking connection to places that refer to the Annex.
> "Deprecated" does not improve on that deficiency.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>
> Dan Nagle wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just returned from WG23 #11.
>> We worked on the Annexes for Ada, C, and Fortran.
>>
>> Some opinion was expressed in plenary that
>> our Annex B Decremental features is poorly named.
>> A suggestion was "Deprecated features".
>> This appears to be the terminology used by other standards.
>>
>> I checked a dictionary, and this view seems reasonable.
>>
>> This is hardly a technical change to the contents of f08.
>> Is it worth making the change now?
>> If so, I'll submit a paper for 189.
>>
>>     
>
>