From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 03:10:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA28750 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 03:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA28742 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 03:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id TAA03211; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 19:54:20 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608091024.TAA03211@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New L10N boot floppy for 2.1.5-RELEASE To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 19:54:20 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <28931.839584823@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 9, 96 03:00:23 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[