Re: Y Store now C++

[Daniel Weinreb <address@hidden>]

Michael Vanier wrote:

>Why not just make this behavior deprecated?  Then anyone who uses "foo" for
>both a function and a variable name will see a warning message and will
>know what to change.  This strategy has worked well for other languages
>(java, python come to mind).
>
Sure, you can make it deprecated.  On what date are you going to stop 
supporting it, and
break Macsyma? Sorry, in the real world it's a lot harder to make 
incompatible changes
like that.