In the process of authoring computer software, its standards or documentation, or other technical standards - deprecation is a status applied to features, characteristics, or practices to indicate that they should be avoided, typically because they have been superseded.
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@Deprecated as of version x.y in JavaDoc
This question & its answers are useful but not sufficient for my problem.
My Question is if I want to add a javadoc as @Deprecated As of version x.y, replaced by {@link SomeClass} in my current ...
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Is it time to deprecate synchronized, wait and notify?
Is there a single scenario (other than compatibility with ancient JVMs) where using synchronized is preferable to using a Lock? Can anyone justify using wait or notify over the newer systems?
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Is mysql_* deprecated after PDO was introduced?
I have been noticing for a long time on Stack Overflow that most users recommend to use PDO instead of mysql_*, because PDO is more secure than mysql_*. But my question is if websites which are ...
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Deprecated Methods in Code Base
A lot of the code I've been working on recently, both professionally (read: at work) and in other spheres (read: at home, for friends/family/etc, or NOT FOR WORK), has been worked on, redesigned and ...
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Migration strategies for deprecating in-house scripting language
We have a scripting language that we use internally for many things. It began as a simple evaluation statements for dynamic labels to become a Turing complete language used pervasively throughout our ...
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Why do certain code elements (classes, methods etc.) in public APIs get deprecated over time?
Today our professor discussed with the class that what "class X or method X get deprecated" means? From what I understood, it means, for example, that we are not going to get that method or class in ...
