As I read it, it means it would be difficult to make a multi-language version of that message. It's too broken up and makes a specific English grammatical choice (whether to add 's' for plural).
Someone who wanted to translate this program to work in another country's language would struggle with messages like this. Kind regards, Caveat On 10/10/12 11:46, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Hi all, > > Who has made the examples for IIF? Maybe you can explain what you meant > by "not translatable": > > ' Never do the following in real code, because it is not translatable! > X = 7 > PRINT "You have " & X & " message" & If(X <> 1, "s", "") & " waiting." > > > Thanks > > Rolf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM > Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly > what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app > Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
