Re: Woah

From: Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 21:16:05 +0000
Subject: Re: Woah
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Wez Furlong wrote: > Are you really serious when you say that you want to deprecate _()?? > Just think how many of the "bigger guys" will be affected and seriously > pissed that their nicely localized enterprise application suddenly doesn't > work or drops its performance several notches ? > > Yes, I know it's not nice, but it's the unnofficial standard. > Lets think about this: > > _() is only there if you compile in the gettext extension. > _() is recognized by all gettext users as being an alias for gettext() > You say that _ should not be used for anything in the language or > on it's own. > So it's never going to collide with anything else > You say that if you come across it and wonder what it does, the manual > doesn't tell you what it is. Lets solve that by putting it in the manual. a very big +1 from my side here -- Hartmut Holzgraefe hartmut@six.de http://www.six.de +49-711-99091-77

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