From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:49:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87o8ivumn5.fsf@telefonica.net> <83pn30pku5.fsf@gnu.org> <86wnx8otoj.fsf@163.com> <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> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22480"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Tomas Hlavaty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 23:50:14 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 1kterc-0005ip-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49514 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kterb-00067c-2o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39022) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kteqw-0005hp-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57889) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kteqv-0007DN-Nv; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:49:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kteqv-0004zm-0X; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:49:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87pn2uq3ty.fsf@logand.com> (message from Tomas Hlavaty on Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:30:49 +0100) 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:261933 Archived-At: 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.