Re: Translating parameters names

> On 17 Nov 2014, at 19:43, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 17 November 2014 19:25, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > > > On 17 Nov 2014, at 15:48, Peter Cowburn <petercowburn@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So long as things are consistent, at this point in time I think we should stick with > > variables names being translated, or not, consistently on a per-language basis. > > No. We should have variable names be untranslated across all languages. Otherwise we’ll be in > for problems if/when named > parameters come by. > > That’s something we only need to worry about if/when named parameters come by. Not true, Reflection already exists. > If/when named parameters do come by, the nature of the documentation sources means that we > really don’t have to care what the “current” (at the time of changing) variable names are in > the docs: we just plonk in the variable names from The Source. Actually, no: the variable names in the source would need to match the documentation. > Whether the translation has “<parameter>pagliaio</parameter>” or > “<parameter>haystack</parameter>” is of little consequence. Except all the people using the “translated” variable names will find out they don’t work. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/