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Feature request: deprecate across modules

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#21,038 opened on Mar 15, 2017

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Description

eg make this work:

julia> module A
       f(x)=1
       end
A

julia> module B
       f(x)=2
       end
B

julia> @deprecate A.f(x) B.f(x)
ERROR: invalid usage of @deprecate

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Research direction
Investigate the current @deprecate macro implementation and propose a way to handle cross module deprecation.
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