From f8cea259b920f75322fd4c30e822cf5b81c495ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kai Schmidt <kaikaliischmidt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:00:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] deprecate signature and stringify modifiers

---
 changelog.md         | 3 ++-
 site/primitives.json | 6 ++++--
 src/primitive/mod.rs | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 219253fdd..215fa2841 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ This version is not yet released. If you are reading this on the website, then t
   - Sorting is a very common operation, and it's useful to have such simple access to it
 - Stabilize [`last ⊣`](https://uiua.org/docs/last)
   - Getting the last row is a very common operation
-- Add experimental inline macros
+- Add experimental [inline macros](https://www.uiua.org/docs/experimental#inline-macros)
+  - Deprecate the experimental `stringify` and `signature` modifiers in favor of inline code macros
 - Add experimental [`binary`](https://uiua.org/docs/binary) function, which encodes and decodes arrays into a compact binary representation
 - Remove the previously deprecated experimental `coordinate ⟔` function
 - Remove the previously deprecated experimental `struct` modifier
diff --git a/site/primitives.json b/site/primitives.json
index 6ef0312d8..16a643405 100644
--- a/site/primitives.json
+++ b/site/primitives.json
@@ -1189,7 +1189,8 @@
     "modifier_args": 1,
     "class": "Comptime",
     "description": "Get the signature of a function",
-    "experimental": true
+    "experimental": true,
+    "deprecated": true
   },
   "sine": {
     "glyph": "∿",
@@ -1231,7 +1232,8 @@
     "modifier_args": 1,
     "class": "Comptime",
     "description": "Convert code into a string instead of compiling it",
-    "experimental": true
+    "experimental": true,
+    "deprecated": true
   },
   "subtract": {
     "glyph": "-",
diff --git a/src/primitive/mod.rs b/src/primitive/mod.rs
index 88bda197f..dde4d164c 100644
--- a/src/primitive/mod.rs
+++ b/src/primitive/mod.rs
@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ impl Primitive {
             Choose => format!("use {Tuples}{Lt} instead"),
             Permute => format!("use {Tuples}{Ne} instead"),
             Triangle => format!("use {Tuples} instead"),
+            Sig => "use (repr⋅⊢)^! instead".into(),
+            Stringify => "use (◇repr⊢)^! instead".into(),
             _ => return None,
         })
     }