Deprecate Process.self in favor of Kernel.self to make imports easier, closes #832

Author: José Valim

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 * deprecations
   * [Kernel] Tidy up and clean `quote` API
   * [Kernel] Old `:local.(args)` syntax is deprecated
+  * [Process] `Process.self` is deprecated in favor `Kernel.self`
 
 # v0.8.0 (2013-01-28)
 

lib/elixir/lib/node.ex

@@ -80,7 +80,10 @@ defmodule Node do
   end
 
   @doc """
-  Establishes a connection to Node. Returns true if successful, false if not, and ignored if the local node is not alive.
+  Establishes a connection to Node. Returns true if successful,
+  false if not, and the atom `:ignored` if the local node is not
+  alive.
+
   See http://erlang.org/doc/man/net_kernel.html#connect_node-1 for more info.
   """
   @spec connect(t) :: boolean | :ignored

lib/elixir/lib/process.ex

@@ -19,11 +19,10 @@ defmodule Process do
     :erlang.is_process_alive(pid)
   end
 
-  @doc """
-  Returns the current process.
-  """
-  @spec self :: pid
+  @doc false
   def self do
+    IO.puts "Process.self is deprecated, please use Kernel.self instead"
+    Exception.print_stacktrace
     :erlang.self()
   end