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Re: [Chicken-users] Egg svn request: caketext
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Robin Lee Powell |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Egg svn request: caketext |
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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:04:19 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:10:35AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:17:08AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Robin Lee Powell
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > caketext is a work-alike port of the Perl module
> > > Locale::Maketext (see
> > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod)
> > > to Chicken Scheme. I haven't made any real-world use of it,
> > > but I certainly intend to, and it's been tested thoroughly.
> >
> > Note that it would be relatively easy to add a hook to the
> > compiler that allows re-writing all literal strings in a
> > compiled program.
> >
> > If you would find something like that useful, just say so.
>
> Huh. I'm honestly not sure. A possible problem is that which
> language I'm going to be writing to will be selected at run-time,
> not compile time.
I later realized that if I could bind re-writing to a function that
could inspect global variables/parameters/whatever to decide what to
do, that would be fine, and possible useful. I'm worried of cases
where rewriting would be bad, but since I can't think of any:
Yes, please do that! Let me know how it works when you're done.
-Robin
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