Change the name of ArrayBoundsException in druntime

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 14:55:27 PDT 2008


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Sergey Gromov <snake.scaly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:44:46 -0500,
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Sorry, I meant to catch Exception. My point was, if I want to print an
>> informative message, the exception should be able to provide it without
>> having to encode it in its type.
>
> It's all nice and simple until you want to localize.  Then all your
> 'informative compiler-provided messages' appear as garbage to a non-
> English-speaking user.  They need to be translated somehow.  And the
> translation is likely to be based upon the context, not upon an arbitrary
> string exception contains.

Just use poedit or whatever to provide localizations of the messages.
I don't see how this has bearing on the discussion at all.

--bb



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