Re: Woah

Did it occur to you that people who *DON'T* use gettext() frequently have to maintain the code of those who do, and that _() isn't going to make one lick of sense to them? On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote the following to Joey Smith : > 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. >