Index: multipole.cc
===================================================================
--- multipole.cc	(revision 65)
+++ multipole.cc	(working copy)
@@ -83,22 +83,7 @@
   vars.n_vars = 0;
   vars.vars = v;
 
-  const char *actual_var_string = strlen(var_string) == 0 ? 
-    "WeylScal4::Psi4r{sw=-2 cmplx=\'WeylScal4::Psi4i\' name=\'psi4\'}" : 
-    var_string;
-
-  if (strlen(var_string) == 0)
-  {
-    static bool have_warned = false;
-    if (!have_warned)
-    {
-      CCTK_VWarn (1, __LINE__, __FILE__, CCTK_THORNSTRING,
-                  "WARNING: No Multipole::variables string has been specified.  For compatibility, the current default is to use \"%s\" but in future, this default will change to \"\".  Please update your parameter files to include this new parameter.", actual_var_string);
-      have_warned = true;
-    }
-  }
-    
-  int ierr = CCTK_TraverseString(actual_var_string, fill_variable, &vars, CCTK_GROUP_OR_VAR);
+  int ierr = CCTK_TraverseString(var_string, fill_variable, &vars, CCTK_GROUP_OR_VAR);
   assert(ierr > 0);
 
   *n_variables = vars.n_vars;