Karim Belabas on Mon, 08 Aug 2016 13:24:21 +0200


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Re: GP reference cards


* Bill Allombert [2016-08-08 12:52]:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:36:26PM +0200, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > * Jeroen Demeyer [2016-08-08 09:34]:
> > > On 2016-08-06 20:40, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > > > N.B. All non-deprecated GP functions
> > > 
> > > Speaking of deprecation, is there a machine-readable way of determining
> > > whether a given GP function is deprecated? I think we talked about this at
> > > the PARI atelier. It would be useful to add some flag to pari.desc for
> > > deprecated functions.
> > 
> > Yes, the current situation is a little awkward. The following script
> > produces the list of obsolete defaults and functions with master
> > (it doesn't in 2.8.0: misses 2 or 3 functions).
> 
> Maybe we could simply add a RFC822 field Obsolete: yes

I agree. That's what I meant by "awkward" :-)

Cheers,

    K.B.
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