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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: \iow_new:N, \ior_new:N
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On 15/07/2015 13:32, Alexander Grahn wrote:
> Good afternoon.
> 
> According to
> 
> http://www.latex-project.org/svnroot/experimental/trunk/l3kernel/l3obsolete.txt
> 
> both functions were removed from the sources on 2011-09-08 (SVN 2786).
> 
> Yet, they are still alive and documented in interface3.pdf. Are they on
> the list by error? And if they are obsolete, which functions are meant
> to replace them?
> 
> Alexander

Ah, a tricky one :-)

These functions were first in expl3 many years ago (I'd have to check
the logs for when they were first added). We had a tidy up and they were
removed whilst the cycle for deprecation was not as defined as it is
now. However, we later realised that as part of the now-current
interface for this area, \io(r|w)_new:N should be restored with a
different implementation.

Probably it is clearest if they are not in the obsolete list as a
result: I'll remove them.
--
Joseph Wright