Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[David Holmes]

On 16/05/2013 6:19 PM, Chris Kirk wrote:
>
> Dropping some of the accrued baggage would be good. Java has gone an
> incredible distance without having a clear out. I for one believe that
> it deserves one.
>
> The way that @Retired is being proposed to being used makes me think
> that I misunderstand the intent of @Deprecated. Doesn't @Deprecated
> mean, move off of this class/method. It has been superseded  here are
> some notes on what has replaced it. We intend to remove it at some point
> in the future. If you ignore this warning then you risk having your
> program break in an upgrade of the library.

Yes - I don't think we need @Retired as a stepping stone between 
@Deprecated and gone. But to date @Deprecated's notion of "some point in 
the future" is a future yet to materialize. :(

But that more general debate deserves it's own thread.

Cheers,
David

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>      >
>      > Interesting suggestions but I for one do not think that after 15
>     years of
>      > deprecation we need to go to such lengths to keep stop(Throwable) on
>      > life-support - it is @Deceased in my opinion :)
>      >
>
>     Hi David,
>
>     In fact, I fully agree for Thread.stop we should probably just do as
>     you suggest and kill it :) but my interest shifted to the @Retired
>     annotation which could be a nice general thing to have (Thread.stop
>     could actually be a test case for it).
>
>     Ideally, by Java 9, we could go through most of the @Deprecated and
>     convert them to @Retired and give one platform lifetime to make people
>     adjust their code. Java 10 could be finally free of all those ancient
>     vestiges of a glorious past :)
>
>     Cheers,
>     Mario
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