Deprecate controller as syntax

[wesleycho]

Given comment here & controller as being recommended against, would it be reasonable to deprecate support for it? It would simplify the regex, and overhead in the controller. The only piece I see this really affecting functionality-wise is use of ng-controller, but ng-controller is an anti-pattern.

[vivainio]

It may not be useful to deprecate anything in ng 1.x series, as that's supposed to be the boring series ;)

[wesleycho]

Well, some things are deprecated such as replace in the directive definition object.

[Narretz]

We could deprecate it, but we won't remove it. Basically deprecation to be scary, and add a best practice note so that people "do the right thing"