On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Steven Ashley <ste...@ashley.net.nz> wrote: > On Sunday, July 14, 2013, Benjamin Striegel wrote: >> >> I think Jack's proposal is fine, but as Bennie notes I think it's still >> worth discussing whether C#-style formatting would be a better fit for us >> than C-style formatting. > > > C# style formatting has the (dis?)advantage that it is possible to duplicate > and reorder values by only changing the format string. This is sometimes > useful for crude internationalization and localization. > > Are these sorts of use cases within the scope of this discussion? > > Will dynamic format strings even be possible? > > I imagine developers needing this sort of functionality may be better off > using a dedicated i18n library. > > Steven
Compile-time checked format strings for i18n are feasible and would be pretty awesome. The syntax extension could load the format strings from an external file and validate that the formatters line up with the same parameters expected by the one in the source. Dispatching based on the current locale needs to be dynamic, but an i18n format syntax extension could just set up the code to do that itself. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
