# Why \`eye\` has been deprecated?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [August 2, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824 "2018-08-02T14:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![swissr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/swissr/32/208_2.png) [@swissr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/swissr)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 9:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecated/12824/94 "2018-08-07T09:11:36Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28456/commits/3b84ab46d4ec1aab70ee537e0d1a704e0df84b10](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28456/commits/3b84ab46d4ec1aab70ee537e0d1a704e0df84b10).  
👋 there was a really witty comment in ‘stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/deprecated.jl’ (gone now too):

```julia
- ## goodbeye, eye!
- export eye
- function eye(m::Integer)
- depwarn(string( ...
- ...

```

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