Time to put a stop to Thread.stop?

[Chris Kirk]

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 It has been superseded  here are some notes on what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.




>
> > 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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