Difference between revisions of "Deprecated features"

Revision as of 18:50, 21 September 2007

These functions, system variables, and keywords are obsolete because they are superseded by equivalent, usually better ones. We encourage you to use their replacements instead. They are still available in Analytica 4.0, but may be discontinued in future releases.

Fractiles() -- This probability distribution generates a pdf with a series of piecewise uniform distributions, with equal probability between each pair of successive values. Usually, you will find CumDist or PDFDist to be more powerful and convenient.

We originally defined many parameter qualifiers with multiple synonyms, thinking it would let you specify parameter lists more flexibly. On reflection, it makes more terms to recognize and remember, so we have chosen one preferred term and deprecate the others. See for details Function_Parameter_Qualifiers#Deprecated_Synonyms_for_Parameter_Qualifiers

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-These functions and system variables are still available in Analytica 4.0, but have been superseded by other functions or features, may be discontinued in future releases. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to use the new functions and not these deprecated ones:
+These functions, system variables, and keywords are obsolete because they are superseded by equivalent, usually better ones. We encourage you to use their replacements instead. They are still available in Analytica 4.0, but may be discontinued in future releases.
-* Fractiles  -- This probability distribution generates a pdf with a series of concatenated uniform distributions, with equal probability between each pair of successive values. Usually, you will find PDFDist or other custom probability distribution as more powerful and convenient.
+* Fractiles()  -- This probability distribution generates a pdf with a series of piecewise uniform distributions, with equal probability between each pair of successive values. Usually, you will find CumDist or PDFDist to be more powerful and convenient.
+We originally defined many parameter qualifiers with multiple synonyms, thinking it would let you specify parameter lists more flexibly. On reflection, it makes more terms to recognize and remember, so we have chosen one preferred term and deprecate the others. See for details [[Function_Parameter_Qualifiers#Deprecated_Synonyms_for_Parameter_Qualifiers]]