Feature #10342: Module#deprecate_constant

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Proposal for Module#deprecate_constant, which marks constants referred by arguments as deprecated.

class C
  FOO = 1
  deprecate_constant :FOO
end
C::FOO #=> warning: constant C::FOO is deprecated

https://github.com/nobu/ruby/compare/Module%23deprecate_constant

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Related to Misc #10339: normalize reference to Timeout::Error added

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

The same effect can already be achieved using autoload, right?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

Yes, autoload can do the trick, but it needs a separated file and warns only once.

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Has duplicate Feature #11398: deprecate constants added