Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/23/13 4:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-05-23 09:29, Diggory wrote:
>
>> If you need to change the text then you also need to update the
>> translations, or at least check that they're still correct, so I see
>> that as a benefit rather than a problem...
>
> Say I have:
>
> gettext("%s: unknown variable at line %s")
>
> Then I want to change the text to:
>
> gettext("%s: not yet known variable at line %s")
>
> I have to find all places where this text is used in the code. Then I
> also need to updated the translations. If I used a key instead I only
> need to update all the translations. I don't need to change my code.

enum string unknownVar = "%s: unknown variable at line %s";
... gettext(unknownVar) ...


Andrei