| From my vantage point today, I side with Paolo's position. I think
| that C++0x means, by ISO rules, that items marked as deprecated
| includes in C++98 should be removed from the libstdc++
| sources. Formally, deprecated is defined as "Normative for the current
| edition of the Standard, but not guaranteed to be part of the Standard
| in future revisions." Thus, all files in "includes/backward" get the
| chop. All files in testsuite/backward get the chop. All docs that
| reference these bits get the chop. Hiiiiii-ya!!!!
However, there is no guarantee they weill go away (from the standard).
As curious as it may be -- and this is a fact -- "deprecated" has no
meaningful implication from the semantics point of view. I highly
suspect almost none of the deprecated stuff will go away.