We don't have to actually *remove* the feature; we can simply 'deprecate'
it. That is, saying that it is still there but that we don't intend to
maintain it in any way (no new documentation, features, testing, tuning,
etc. -- and less enthusiastic help on the mailing list) and don't recommend
that you use it unless you have existing code that depends on it. All that
requires is adding the word DEPRECATED to any related documentation....
-s
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu
> wrote:
> Where did fast arrays come from? Who did this? Does anyone use this?
>
> If we are going to start removing features because we don't think they are
> very good
> and "so far as we know" no one is using them, seems like a slippery path.
>
> Putting an array in a value cell may be important to someone.
>
> RJf
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