The statements described in this subnode are obsolete and are only still available for reasons of compatibility with releases prior to 4.6 or 6.10. You may still come across these statements in old programs but you should not use them in new programs.
Most of the obsolete statements listed here are syntactically forbidden in ABAP Objects or in Unicode programs. As a result, they can now only be used outside of classes or non-Unicode programs. There are replacement constructions for all obsolete statements which improve the efficiency and readability of programs.
Apart from the obsolete statements listed in this node, there are also obsolete variants and additions for non-obsolete statements. These cannot be used in ABAP Objects and Unicode programs either. They are detailed in the description of the corresponding statements.