[Python-Dev] PEP 215 redux: toward a simplified consensus? (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:27:18 -0600

"Paul" == Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

Paul> "Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
>> I could not accept any solution that cannot offer anything but this.
>> This kind of interpolation is plain broken.

Paul> How so? I need more info to go on.

I have no direct experience with text translation, but in this internet day and age, it seems to me that a change to the language shouldn't make internationalization more difficult than it already is. (I doubt anyone will claim that it's truly easy, even with gettext.) Guido mentioned a number of other languages that already use $-interpolation, Perl, the shells, awk and Ruby I think. Of those, all but Ruby were around before the explosion of the internet in general and the web and Unicode in particular, so internationalization wasn't a prime consideration when those languages' $-interpolation facilities were implemented.

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