> > > --Apple-Mail-9--465959030 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > delsp=yes; > format=flowed > > > On 06/06/2006, at 5:20 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > >> Right above, you said "We control the debug output machinery > >> generating this, and can simply tell it to only deal in one > >> language." Here, you seem to be implying that the messages should be > >> localised in the language the compiler is going to output messages > >> in. I suppose you could output both, but that still bloats object > >> files more than just using numbers. > > > > Just output in English and let the IDE or the other tools translate > > it. > > What's the difference between that and just outputting a number and > letting the IDE or other tool translate it? Either way, you're going > to need a fixed set of strings or numbers to translate.
Say I want to add a new one, I have to go through a committee with the number system while with a string I don't. -- Pinski
