[erlang-questions] Strings - deprecated functions

[Fred Hebert]

On 11/27, Robert Virding wrote:
>I think it is perfectly possible to keep the old functions in the same
>'string' module in a clean way if you just reorganise the documentation.
>Now all the functions, both the new and the obsolete, are kept in one
>alphabetical list which makes it difficult to see which are which and get a
>clear overview of the functions. Why not just separate the functions into 2
>groups, the new and the obsolete, each in its own alphabetical list? This
>would make it easy to keep the old functions while making it easy for
>people to choose the newer ones, and migrate code if desired. There would
>then be no need to get rid of the old functions and break backward
>compatibility.
>

The index on the left of the docs is alphabetical (that's automated), 
but the functions on the page itself are already in a new/old set of 
functions, each sorted alphabetically.