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Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)


From: Tomas Hlavaty
Subject: Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 23:57:48 +0100

On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 17:49, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
>    However, if somebody writes such code, it is almost trivial to fix
>    it with search and replace:
>
>       "(= (length" -> "(length="
>       "(< (length" -> "(length<"
>       "(> (length" -> "(length>"
>       "(/= (length" -> "(length/="
>       "(<= (length" -> "(length<="
>       "(>= (length" -> "(length>="
>
>    (plus extra closing paren)
>
> Users will assume that these length>= hacks will make their code
> magically better, when they just hide a problematic form -- doing a
> possibly complicated operation inside a predicate call.

It will make their code better.  I do not see any magic there, it is
pretty simple and logical.

Do you have some other solution on mind?



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