From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:57:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87ft3qq2kz.fsf@logand.com> References: <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <834kkbp9vr.fsf@gnu.org> <87czyxuxw6.fsf@db48x.net> <87y2hlt82w.fsf@db48x.net> <87lfdlvsw4.fsf@logand.com> <83h7o8ncly.fsf@gnu.org> <87pn2wudab.fsf@db48x.net> <87mty0c3m1.fsf@gnus.org> <83czywnb86.fsf@gnu.org> <87im8ob707.fsf@gnus.org> <87eejcb6nx.fsf@gnus.org> <875z4ob5c9.fsf@gnus.org> <87a6u09nkq.fsf@gnus.org> <875z4o9jdg.fsf@gnus.org> <87r1nb8yoj.fsf@gnus.org> <83blefkte2.fsf@gnu.org> <87h7o69aa8.fsf@gnus.org> <87pn2uq3ty.fsf@logand.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17187"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 23:58:43 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ktezr-0004Nr-21 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:58:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55562 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktezq-0000kc-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:58:42 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktez4-0000Hw-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:51344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktez3-0001Y9-1o; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:57:54 -0500 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D995F19F672; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:57:50 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 26.3 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261936 Archived-At: On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 17:49, "Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > However, if somebody writes such code, it is almost trivial to fix > it with search and replace: > > "(= (length" -> "(length=" > "(< (length" -> "(length<" > "(> (length" -> "(length>" > "(/= (length" -> "(length/=" > "(<= (length" -> "(length<=" > "(>= (length" -> "(length>=" > > (plus extra closing paren) > > Users will assume that these length>= hacks will make their code > magically better, when they just hide a problematic form -- doing a > possibly complicated operation inside a predicate call. It will make their code better. I do not see any magic there, it is pretty simple and logical. Do you have some other solution on mind?