As part of MCP, there has been some discussion about cleaning out
unnecessary methods in Morphic. Here is a way to mark methods for
future removal.  I'm sure this is not a new idea, but maybe it will
help with the housekeeping.

This change set adds Object>>deprecatedOn:by: to declare a method
obsolete and provide a warning to any sender of the message to
discourage use of the deprecated method.

Send "self deprecatedOn: aDateString by: yourNameOrInitials" in
the method being marked for future removal.

Dave

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'From Squeak3.4gamma of ''7 January 2003'' [latest update: #5169] on 17 February 2003 at 1:24:51 pm'!
"Change Set:		DeprecateMethods-dtl
Date:			17 February 2003
Author:			David T. Lewis

Adds Object>>deprecatedOn:by: to declare a method obsolete and provide a warning to any sender of the message to discourage use of the deprecated method."!


!Object methodsFor: 'housekeeping' stamp: 'dtl 2/17/2003 13:14'!
deprecatedOn: aDateString by: initialsOrName
	"Send this from a method which is being marked for future removal from
	the image. aDateString should be the date at which the method is being
	declared as obsolete."

	"self deprecatedOn: Date today printString by: 'Dave Lewis'"

	^ self notify: thisContext sender printString, ' was declared obsolete effective ',
		aDateString, ' by ', initialsOrName,
		' and will be removed from the image at some future date.'
! !