As mentioned to mr_mischief, I was thinking that (pseudocode):

if today >= die_date
    if 'if' is present
        if 'if' returns true
            die reason
        else
            warn reason  # they won't forget it now!
        endif
    else
        die reason       # automatically die if no condition
    endif
endif

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Thus, they get deprecation warnings even after the 'die' date, even if no code triggers the deprecation. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not.

I'm also thinking about aliases to the deprecation name: deprecation_XXX and deprecation_TODO. Programmers often embed XXX and TODO in their code and grep for them regularly. This will make it easier to find.

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Devel::Deprecate by Ovid
in thread RFC: Devel::Deprecate by Ovid

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