Weird Language Features

[Les F.]

Non-english speaking nations?
If you live on the east coast of USA:
St Pierre Miglon (France)
Quebec (wants to be France)
Cuba (Cuba)
Florida (wants to be Cuba)
Louisianna (displaced, disgruntled, former Acadians)
Middle America:
Mexico (Mexico)
New Mexico (Mexico)
Canada (eh)
West Coast:
Mexico (Mexico)
Vancouver (Hong Kong)

Les F ;-)


Mexico (Mexico)
Robert Hand <Robert_Hand at notspammehotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > 1/ The programmer calls a function that doesn't actually exist within
> > the application (or libraries). Is the a feature whereby the
> > programmer can create a "catch-all" function which is called in cases
> > like these? Can this function examine the list of existing functions
> > and call the most appropriate one? Or create a new function on the fly
> > and install it into the application?
>
> If you call a function that doesn't exist, I don't think it will compile.
> To examine
> an object and it's functions I think you use the reflection library
(haven't
> messed with it myself)
>
> >
> > 2/ Can ou filter the input source code before compilation (or
> > interpretation) in some way so that language keywords could be changed
> > for other strings? Imagine you wanted to allow someone to program your
> > language of choice in, say, French. How would you go about translating
> > French keywords into ones that the compiler (or interpreter) could
> > understand. What if the translation wasn't one-to-one or fixed? Could
> > you put enough intelligence into the translator so that it could
> > handle certain strings differently depending on where they appeared in
> > the source code?
> >
> This would be an application to replace strings.  Probably impossible due
to
> abbreviations and wierd stuff.
> Unless you want to type in each translation, instead of automating it.
> Java does have some neat internationalization features for replacing
> messages, menu options etc.
> Pretty advanced/
> >
> > If you're wondering why I'm inventing these bizarre scenarios, it's
> > for a paper I'm writing for this year's Perl Conference.  Perl does
> > have these features (see the AUTOLOAD function and source filters) and
> > I'm interested in seeing how widespread they are in other languages.
> >
> Really?  Thats great!  If you can do it in perl, you can probably
implement
> it in java.
> I'm not a perl expert.  Is the perl source code translation a function of
> perl or a separate app?
> if it's a separate app, handling ascii input, give me a link.
>
> > Of course, if you'd like to tell me just why you consider it's a good
> > thing that your language of choice doesn't have these features, then
> > I'd be only too happy to hear that too.
> >
> I think as far as internationalization goes, java is prety mature.
> Unfortunately, it's
> 2000 miles from me to the next non-english speaking nation.  No
opportunity
> to pursue it.
>
>
> > I'd just like to make it clear that I'm not interested in getting into
> > "my language is better than your language" types of flamewars. I'm
> > certainly not trying to argue that Perl is better than other languages
> > for having these features.
> nope.  I must start a flame.  I am compelled to by satan.  Bill Gates is
our
> savior.  All hail the great redmond giant! HAIL or be consumed! Oh come
on,
> please hail.  Please.  I'll give you a free copy of interdev.  I'll but
your
> company and give you free coca-cola.  Fine then.  If you won't praise Bill
> I'll just go pout until you do....
>
>
> > <http://www.dave.org.uk>  SMS: sms at dave.org.uk
>
>