Derick, that's the price of usability. Open Source always suffered from that, and forever will if the usability will not be considered as one of the main benefits, especially for a programming language as PHP.
I agree on 110% that it will be harder to maintain the code. I myself will never use any non-english errors in my PHP setups and will always spend precious minutes grepping for error code. But, this will benefit the whole project. It is not a stupid idea - it is "usability". -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Maxim Maletsky wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus Börger) wrote... : > > > > > However i would VERY MUCH appreciate having english error messages hard coded > > > into the source. AND those i18n error messages only activateable by an ini > > > setting. > > > > I disagree. Leaving english comments in C code is obvious, but the > > errors that get printed to user's screens should be out of C code. > > No, I won't want the C code less maintainable and have to search for > error codes all the time. > > > I know, it will hassle some lazy us while coding, but nevertheless, it > > will help documentation ppl to translate errors easlier without knowing > > how extensions are set :) > > It's giving coders more work, work which looks like documenting; and we > all know that coders dont like to document. And being lazy has nothing > to do with it, it's just all practical. Dont forget that most coders > work on PHP because they _need_ the function they are working on in > their jobs. > > Derick > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ > PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
