Is deprecation as bad as removal?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk>
wrote:

> But surely the *entire purpose* of deprecations is to be *less* damaging
> than removals, and so if we're implicitly considering them equally bad,
> that suggests to me that our deprecation mechanism is totally broken, and
> needs to be fixed.


If deprecation is not considered to be "removal upcoming, fix your code
now" then there is no point to deprecation. I don't understand your point
otherwise.

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