Comment by reader_1000

I don't remember the exact project or where I read it but one project added delay (using sleep function) to depreatected methods in order to discourage people using them. After every release, they increased the sleep time so that at one point it became impossible to use it without noticing it. Although I don't know if it is possible to do this for new code trying to use deprecated function and have old code use non-delayed one, I think it was a nice trick.