Skip Montanaro wrote:
"Paul" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
Paul> "Martin v. Loewis" wrote: >> I could not accept any solution that cannot offer anything but this. >> This kind of interpolation is plain broken.
Paul> How so? I need more info to go on.
I have no direct experience with text translation, but in this internet day and age, it seems to me that a change to the language shouldn't make internationalization more difficult than it already is.
I've proposed that whereas today you add a "_( )" in the future you would add "_( )" and remove "$" if it happens to occur at the start of the string. If the string didn't start with a "$" you might also have to scan to see if it contains one. In that case you double it up. This doesn't make internationalization more difficult. As proof I present mailman, which *already* does the interpolation I ask for as a feature of its implementation of "_()". All I'm asking is that mailman's interpolation feature ALSO be available under a simplified syntax at compile time. Paul Prescod