On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 23:51:34 UTC, José Armando García Sancio wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:34 PM, dnewbie <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There is --ctags output in Dscanner >>> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner >> >> >> Very interesting. Is this Dscanner pluggable? I would be interesting >> to use Dscanner for localization. For example it would be nice if it >> could generate a list of all the strings that are passed to a specific >> function. >> >> This is how people generate localizable string to use for gettext. >> >> Thoughts? >> -Jose > > > Dscanner has a tokenizer for D code, so it would not be hard to make a > program that uses the tokenizer to swap out string literals. >
Swap out? Not sure what you mean by this. I don't want to localize the code. I just want to enumerate them all so that a localization team can provide a catalog that could be use to do the translation at runtime. In C/C++ a lot of teams do localization by providing a #define "_" that simply returns the string passed into it. In D this would be a template that could be compiled out. The cool thing about having this "_" macro is that then you can have a tool that can extract all occurrences of such a macro. Gettext has such a tool for C/C++. If we want to leverage gettext in D then we would have to build the equivalent of that tool for D. I was wondering if Dscanner can be extended to do this. Thanks, -Jose
