On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 21:29, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> This is version 8 of the series to make Git optionally translatable
>> with GNU gettext.
>>
>> Changes since version 7:
> [...]
>
>> * Add back support (and a new test) for the no-op N_() macro. This
>> is used for marking translations for later use, e.g.:
>>
>> const char help[] =
>> N_("See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.");
>>
>> int main(void)
>> {
>> puts(_(help));
>
> Shouldn't you add also corresponding N__ subroutine to Git::I18N
> module?
>
> # Dummy functions for string marking.
> sub N__($) {
> return shift;
> }
I don't really see the need. It's very useful in C because you can't
call functions outside function bodies (like in the example
above). Perl has no such restriction, so I don't see the use case.
Can you think of one? Perhaps I'm just being unimaginative.
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