Questions tagged [deprecation]
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to features, characteristics, or practices to indicate that they should be avoided, typically because they have been superseded.
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Why are the <b> and <i> tags deprecated?
This question came up in one of my college classes. The professor only gave the answer that it was more descriptive, but it seems as though <b> and <i> are rather explicit in their meaning ...
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How to properly deprecate methods in Java?
Today I lost a method that I was using since my co-worker redefined it to take its superclass instead. So after synchronizing with the repository I had trouble. Would it had been better in this case ...