Hi, I have dusted off and improved the automatic refactoring of deprecations. - when the refactoring engine is not present, it falls back to a standard deprecation - It does not introduce any dependencies (can just be in the Kernel, the only cost is one method of 10 lines). - It sets the author so it does not require initials - It refactors â*only*â the sending (offending, deprecated) send site. So a second selector that is identical (which might be a different method and not deprecated) will not be affected. The way to use it is this: ifNotNilDo: aBlock self deprecated: 'Please use #ifNotNil: instead' transformWith: '`@receiver ifNotNilDo: `@statements' -> '`@receiver ifNotNil: `@statements'. ^ aBlock ifNotNil: aBlock As we try to provide already Lint rules for deprecations (or at least should have..) the amount of additional work is not much. This is the full implementation: deprecated: anExplanationString transformWith: aRule | rewriteRule method context node | context := thisContext sender sender. (Smalltalk globals hasClassNamed: #RBParseTreeRewriter) ifFalse: [ ^self deprecated: anExplanationString ]. method := context method. node := context sourceNodeExecuted. rewriteRule := (Smalltalk globals classNamed: #RBParseTreeRewriter) new replace: aRule key with: aRule value. (rewriteRule executeTree: node) ifFalse: [ ^ self ]. node replaceWith: rewriteRule tree. Author useAuthor: 'AutoDeprecationRefactoring' during: [method methodClass compile: method ast formattedCode classified: method protocol] https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/18507/ This is *with intention* the absolute âsimplest thing that can possibly workâ. There is no interactive tool to preview refactoring in interactive mode, or some way to opt in or out. The power of things like this comes from actually using them, not from being perfect... Marcus