From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: i18n, gettext support Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:13:28 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87d60zey1j.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <200408202226.10769.bruno@clisp.org> <200409021821.13800.bruno@clisp.org> <87d614b0fq.fsf@zip.com.au> <200409041925.15048.bruno@clisp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094516067 10475 80.91.224.253 (7 Sep 2004 00:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 07 02:14:19 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C4Tcp-0003Ja-00 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 02:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4Ti1-0002MR-KI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4Thq-0002M6-AK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C4Tho-0002LO-KH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C4Tho-0002L0-A6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:19:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.8.0.85] (helo=mailout2.pacific.net.au) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C4TcP-0000Yg-B5; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 20:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (mailproxy2.pacific.net.au [61.8.0.87]) by mailout2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i870Dkje019684; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:13:46 +1000 Original-Received: from localhost (ppp2D99.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.45.153]) by mailproxy2.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.6) with ESMTP id i870Di78030135; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:13:45 +1000 Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1C4Tc0-0001rn-00; Tue, 07 Sep 2004 10:13:28 +1000 Original-To: Bruno Haible Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4086 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:4086 Bruno Haible writes: > > That's your point of view, not mine. I would find it irresponsible if I > were to submit a patch which includes destructive functions that don't > bear a '!' in their name. Well, I guess the conventions for system stuff are described at the start of the posix interface chapter in the manual. I think ! is just meant for changes to scheme level data, not system things. But actually it was the procedure-with-setter I was more concerned about, being almost never used in the core, and in fact a rather controversial concept, as I understand it. > In the GNU 'xgettext' extractor and associated example I will support > whatever API you provide in guile. That'll be (_ "foo") won't it? Being nice and compact, and already used. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel