Re: Woah

Quoting Joey Smith <joey@joeysmith.com>: > No, I haven't, but let me get this straight: > > You're saying that if something is a bad idea, that the more often it is > used, the "less bad" [1] it becomes? Uh, no. I was just pointing out that it's been around for a long time, and is used in a lot of code. Like Ken said, breaking it - many years later - for language elegance seems rather unproductive. If it were up for inclusion now, it'd be a completely different story. The _reason_ backwards compability is a pain in the ass is that sometimes you have to put up with things like this because they get entrenched. Also, I asked if the people bashing it had used gettext just because I'd imagine that people who had used a feature would have a better idea on whether or not it is obscure or useful. -chuck -- Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org> Some fallen angels have their good reasons.