Re: Woah

> Why the heck do we have: > > PHP_FALIAS(_, gettext, NULL) > > in ext/gettext/gettext.c That has been there forever and is very standard. Anybody who has ever used gettext knows this well. From the gettext docs: Many packages use `_' (a simple underline) as a keyword, and write _("Translatable string")' instead of gettext ("Translatable string")'. Further, the coding rule, from GNU standards, wanting that there is a space between the keyword and the opening parenthesis is relaxed, in practice, for this particular usage. So, the textual overhead per translatable string is reduced to only three characters: the underline and the two parentheses. However, even if GNU gettext uses this convention internally, it does not offer it officially. The real, genuine keyword is truly gettext' indeed. It is fairly easy for those wanting to use _' instead of `gettext' to declare: #include <libintl.h> #define _(String) gettext (String) -Rasmus