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[spudtater]

Sun's Javadoc documentation tool allows for sections of code ("methods") to be marked as "deprecated", to warn future developers to avoid using them. The reason for this is usually because the old method is not fully-featured, compatible, or technically correct enough. But sometimes there are other reasons.

Found in the official Java API:

 int	 getMaxDecent() 
          Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1.1, replaced by getMaxDescent().

Comments

[williamjm.livejournal.com]

It does lead to the interesting question of what the maximum decent integer is ;)

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Took me a minute to see that :)

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

68. Anything above that is just rude.   8^)