On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Anton Oleynikov wrote:

> IMHO it's a good practice to give functions new names if they are totally
> rewritten because:
>
> - you don't break old code
> - you can migrate portions of code from old one to the new one and not
> everything in one go

But since this was forced to not break old code AND is a big migrate from the
old to the new way, none of those reasons hold for this situation.

This introduces a new function call with the same purpose as the previous one,
but without the recognition and tradition the previous one had.

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