gettext #" reader macro?

gettext #" reader macro?

[Tobias Gerdin]

Hello,

I was looking through http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ideas.html and
the gettext support. I thought this would be a small fun thing to hack
on but apparently it is already implemented as of quite some time.

For convenient use doing something like (define _ gettext) is
recommended. The #"text" syntax that the above page proposes is more
concise and in my opinion quite nice, so I did the below and stuck it
in boot-9.scm:

(read-hash-extend #\"
                  (lambda (c port)
                    `(gettext ,((module-ref
                                 (resolve-interface '(ice-9 rdelim))
                                 'read-delimited)
                                ;; FIXME skipped quoted \"
                                "\"" port))))

Should we include sth like this?

-Tobias

Re: gettext #" reader macro?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Tobias Gerdin <tgerdin@gmail.com> skribis:

> For convenient use doing something like (define _ gettext) is
> recommended. The #"text" syntax that the above page proposes is more
> concise and in my opinion quite nice, so I did the below and stuck it
> in boot-9.scm:

I find (_ "text") just as concise and more likely to be directly
understood since _ is an alias for the ‘gettext’ function in most
languages, and the one used by default when running ‘gettextize’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.