How about this:
A "deprecated" keyword that makes the compiler emit a warning when a
deprecated function/class is used.

E.g.

namespace SomeLib
{
    deprecated
    {
        void foo() {}
        int bar() {}
    }
    deprecated  class X {};
}

Tom


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