This page is building up a list of bits of [Tcl 9.0 WishList%|%Tcl%|%] and [Tk 9.0 WishList%|%Tk%|%] that are deprecated and which may be removed in 9.0.
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**Tcl**

   1. The [case] command.
   1. The old [puts] syntax.
   1. The [opt] package.

**Tk**

   1. The [message] widget.
   1. Stippling of [canvas] items and [text] tags (non-portable).
   1. Bitmap canvas items (not bitmap [image]s!)
   1. Old [pack] syntax.

[ZB] 2009-11-26 Why "message" is deprecated? I think, short rationale in each case would make the reasons more clear...
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**Items marked as deprecated in Tcl and Tk without a specific version or date for removal yet**

***Tcl C API***
   * TclpMatchFiles
   * Tcl_Backslash
   * Tcl_DStringTrunc
   * Tcl_GlobalEval, Tcl_GlobalEvalObj, Tcl_VarEval, Tcl_VarEvalVA
   * Tcl_Read, Tcl_Write
   * Tcl_EvalTokens
   * Tcl_AppendResult, Tcl_AppendResultVA, Tcl_AppendElement, Tcl_FreeResult, 
   ** [DKF]: Tcl_AppendResult is not deprecated.
   *** [LV]: Okay - was just basing that comment on SetResult.3's reference to Tcl_AppendResult right after saying ''Use of the following procedures is deprecated...'' 
   * direct access to interp->result
   ** [DKF]: This is gone in 8.6 unless you use a back-compat macro (whose name I forget) when compiling your code.

***Tcl script API***
   * [trace] variable, trace vdelete, trace vinfo
   * [clock scan] without a `-format` option provided
   * ARE regular expression comments ((?#ttt)
   * :<: and :>: regular expression bracketed constraints
   * [tcltest] commands and variables that are undocumented in the tcltest.n man page
   ** [DGP]: Note that the timing for that deprecation would be the release of tcltest 3.0, which may well not be tied to the release of Tcl 9.0.

***Tk C API***
   * TK_CONFIG_OPTION_SPECIFIED bit in Tk_ConfigureWidget is deprecated
   ** [DKF]: Actually, we want to scrap that whole API. Can't do it yet; it's still in use for things like [canvas] items. And the [scrollbar] too. But we ''want'' to get rid of it.

***Tk script API***
   * [scrollbar] '''widget set totalUnits windowUnits firstUnit lastUnit''' syntax is deprecated




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'''[dkf] - 2009-11-24 18:07:08'''

Note that I may not have thought of everything. There's quite a few crufty corners in there, quietly mouldering away...

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