It couldn't have been that easy. Surely someone disagrees?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:57 AM, John Tamplin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Freeland Abbott <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I like the general idea, yes.
>>
>> A complication is that one of the changes John asked for, specific for the
>> i18n provider, was to return */*-FALLBACK-*/ || "default"*, with the idea
>> that a null/undefined fallback should be gracefully handled, since an
>> invalid locale return is going to break the generators.  I'm personally a
>> bit less concerned there (user both overrode the default and also
>> misconfigured => generator should test for and gracefully explain), but in
>> the i18n case we do have a "fallback fallback" to return, so I said okay.
>> That wouldn't work for chaining, first because you don't always have such a
>> fallback, and second because with a chain you couldn't put the fallback into
>> the provider, and having <set-property-fallback-fallback /> or
>> <set-property-fallback exponent=n ... /> is silly.
>>
>
> Maybe if null gets all the way beck to the top, just replace it with an
> empty string, and the i18n code should treat that equivalently to default
> (it already does in many places).
>
> --
> John A. Tamplin
> Software Engineer (GWT), Google
>
>
> >
>

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