Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 19:54:20 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New L10N boot floppy for 2.1.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <199608091024.TAA03211@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <28931.839584823@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 9, 96 03:00:23 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
>
> > Use a translation-oriented catalog lookup; ie. something like :
>
> Why not something even more abbreviated?
>
> ret = msgDialog("msg#ftp_error", "an error occurred retreiving %s",
> filename);
>
> Let the internals handle at all, with you passing in the fall-back
> string (and, not coincidently, making the statement readable again).
Sure; I wasn't trying to detail an implementation, just airing a
concept. Putting the annoying but necessary pointer shuffling inside
a wrapper like that would make the flow around the 'reeal work' much
tidier.
> Jordan
>
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