Re: maturity and status and attributes, oh my!

[Stefan Richter]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> given the possible
> interpretations of EXPERIMENTAL that i hadn't considered until now,
> maybe it really *does* make sense to tag something as both
> EXPERIMENTAL and, say, DEPRECATED (does it?).

In theory maybe, for communication purposes perhaps rather not.

The reasoning why a feature is deprecated will typically include the
gotchas which caused the feature to be considered experimental, if such
gotchas still apply.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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