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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int'
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cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

> In article <10tpq7e$a6kp$3@dont-email.me>, Bart  <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> Apparently, you missed the changes afoot in the committee to do
> exactly what everyone has been telling you:  deprecate `i[A]` but
> preserve `i + A`.

Not deprecate but deem it obsolescent.  A very different thing.