On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:33 -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote:
> On 01/23/11 12:39, Tim Foster wrote:
> > Just another comment on 17757, the thousands of unique strings mentioned
> > in the description are virtually impossible to translate of course.
> >
>
> Note that when no error occurs (the common case) we never
> localize any of those strings; in this case I'd much
> rather pay a performance overhead when reporting errors
> than pay one on every operation.
Sure - I've no argument with the idea of optimising the path here, but
the approach still strikes me as odd. Surely the overhead of loading
translated messages once into constants instead is miniscule, balanced
against the non-standard use of messaging APIs?
(ultimately, risking translators not getting all of the translatable
messages, and our error messages being incomprehensible for non-english
speakers?)
If you've already talked to the l10n folks, and they're fine with the
approach, then I'm happy to stand corrected.
cheers,
tim
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