[erlang-questions] Proposal for -warning() directive

[Jayson Vantuyl]

So it does.  Gotta love Erlang.  It's got so many nooks and crannies.   
Randomly in that vein, if anyone can explain to me how to use the sofs  
module, I'd appreciate it.  :-D

On Sep 4, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Attila Rajmund Nohl wrote:

> 2009/9/4, Jayson Vantuyl <kagato@REDACTED>:
>> I've had a case where this would have been useful.  Not to have a
>> directive explosion, I might also recommend -deprecated().  In  
>> fact, I
>> would probably find that more useful than -warning.
>>
>> Or maybe there should be a directive more like:
>>
>> -emit(warning,"Something bad about this module.").
>> -emit(deprecated,"This disappears next version.").
>>
>> Or I might be overthinking it.  But I do think this functionality in
>> some form is useful.
>
> I suggest that you should check the regexp.erl file in the stdlib in
> OTP R13. It contains this text:
>
> -deprecated([sh_to_awk/1,parse/1,format_error/1,match/2,first_match/ 
> 2,matches/2]).
> -deprecated([sub/3,gsub/3,split/2]).
>
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