Charles, thanks for the reply. I've pulled the statement and added a {{copyedit}} to the page. I'm not very familiar with the workflow used on the Codex beyond that.<div><br></div><div>Hopefully someone can pick it up and update it to better reflect the old, deprecated nature of a lot of the code and notes on that page.<div>
<div><div><br><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Charles K. Clarkson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cclarkson@htcomp.net" target="_blank">cclarkson@htcomp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Andrew Nacin wrote:<br>
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When functions get added, we make sure they always work in a backwards compatible way, or we deprecate it and come up with a new function, so I'm not sure why we're advising plugin authors to avoid these, or why we suggest they may arbitrarily change.<br>
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It looks like this note was first added by User:Hakre [1] when the page<br>
was first created about 2 years ago. He is still an active Codex<br>
contributor. Perhaps you could ask him (on his discussion page) why this<br>
note is there.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Hakre</a><br>
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HTH,<br>
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Charles Clarkson<br></blockquote></div></div>
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