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Document number: N3760

Date: 2013-09-01

[[deprecated]] attribute

by Alberto Ganesh Barbati

Excerpt:

This is an update of N3394, bearing changes proposed in the pre-Chicago Drafting Review Teleconference of 2013-08-26. The main difference is that the list of the cases where the attribute can be used has changed, by removing namespaces, enumerators, templates and adding non-static data members.

Motivation

Several existing implementations provide ways to annotate entities whose use is discouraged. The goal is achieved using an implementation-specific decoration syntax. For example: ...