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> > > >Also, using the primary language as the tag discourages clean > >localization patterns, where the author of the code should be collecting > >his locale dependent messages in one place so that translators can > >easily translate the messages without having to seek them out in the > >code. > > That's a tools issue. gettext has tools the automatically generates > pre-translation files, containing each message to be translated, as > well as its context (file and line). Yes, but it discourages clean usage for those systems that aren't using gettext (or similar) as a backend. I agree that tools could be written to remedy this problem. > A major advantage of of using the primary language message as the tag > is that it makes the program easier to understand, since when you > read the program you *see* what kind of message is emitted. > Which do you prefer: > (put-message 'hello user) > or: > (format (gettext "Hello ~a!") user) > > I would find the latter more informative. One could argue that comments could provide similar information. I think though that the argument of cleanly separating user interface data and program logic is a stronger one. Scott
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