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Article #242Re: Tools for manipulating message catalogs
From: Erik M. van der Poel
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 07:53
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1991 07:53
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Kee Hinckley writes: > While you could argue that the code readability doesn't change, > your mechanism makes it more likely that people will enter the wrong > number in the code, and thus get the wrong error message. Instead of treating the symptoms, we should try to cure the disease. Using numbers for the message ids was a bad idea in the first place. (Thank goodness XPG3 and AT&T's specs are not International Standards.) Wouldn't it be possible to create a reasonably efficient implementation using hashing and caching with symbolic names instead of numeric ids? Then we can add/delete/modify messages at will. We should leave numbering and counting to the computer. - -- Erik M. van der Poel erik@sra.co.jp Software Research Associates, Inc., Tokyo, Japan TEL +81-3-3234-2692
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!sranha!srava!erik From: erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Tools for manipulating message catalogs Message-ID: <1132@sranha.sra.co.jp> Date: 12 Apr 91 07:53:18 GMT References: <1991Apr11.084924.1951@alphalpha.com> Sender: news@sranha.sra.co.jp Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: srava