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Moved info about deprecation to "Changes to distribution" section.

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Talk about (debug-enable 'warn-deprecated).
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Marius Vollmer 2005-01-12 11:08:51 +00:00
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@ -63,6 +63,24 @@ the GC. See the manual for details. [XXX - write this.]
The default is "pthreads", unless your platform doesn't have pthreads, The default is "pthreads", unless your platform doesn't have pthreads,
in which case "null" threads are used. in which case "null" threads are used.
** There is the new notion of 'discouraged' features.
This is a milder form of deprecation.
Things that are discouraged should not be used in new code, but it is
OK to leave them in old code for now. When a discouraged feature is
used, no warning message is printed like there is for 'deprecated'
features. Also, things that are merely discouraged are nevertheless
implemented efficiently, while deprecated features can be very slow.
You can omit discouraged features from libguile by configuring it with
the '--disable-discouraged' option.
** Deprecation warnings can be controlled at run-time.
(debug-enable 'warn-deprecated) switches them on and (debug-disable
'warn-deprecated) switches them off.
** New module (ice-9 serialize): ** New module (ice-9 serialize):
(serialize FORM1 ...) and (parallelize FORM1 ...) are useful when (serialize FORM1 ...) and (parallelize FORM1 ...) are useful when
@ -676,19 +694,6 @@ Use symbol->keyword and keyword->symbol instead.
* Changes to the C interface * Changes to the C interface
** There is the new notion of 'discouraged' features.
This is a milder form of deprecation.
Things that are discouraged should not be used in new code, but it is
OK to leave them in old code for now. When a discouraged feature is
used, no warning message is printed like there is for 'deprecated'
features. Also, things that are merely discouraged are nevertheless
implemented efficiently, while deprecated features can be very slow.
You can omit discouraged features from libguile by configuring it with
the '--disable-discouraged' option.
** A new family of functions for converting between C values and ** A new family of functions for converting between C values and
Scheme values has been added. Scheme values has been added.