marking functions as obsolete/deprecated

[Lennart Ohman]

Hi,
I believe the problem is that there is no compile-time linking
of the modules. The compiler does not "follow" global calls
to make sure they are "correct". That is why the obsolete
attribute can only work with tools considering a set of modules,
like xref does.

Best Regards,
Lennart


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED
[mailto:owner-erlang-questions@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Fredrik Thulin
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 9:43 AM
To: erlang-questions@REDACTED
Subject: marking functions as obsolete/deprecated

Hi

Is there any way I can mark (exported) functions in a module as obsolete 
or deprecated, and have the compiler issue a warning about it?

OTP seems to use static bits in otp_internal.erl to do this, but that 
options isn't exactly available to me. There is the module attribute 
tag 'deprecated', but it seems to only be used by 'xref' and not the 
compiler/linter.

Thanks in advance

/Fredrik