Re: [boost] [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library startstomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library startstomorrow
From: Artyom (artyomtnk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-17 10:05:18

----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Sent: Sun, April 17, 2011 4:31:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] [locale] Formal review of Boost.Locale library 
>startstomorrow
> 
> Jeff wrote:
> 
> > > Okay, I can buy that in some circumstances, you  want syntax errors to be
> > > silently ignored.
> 
> No. You are  looking at the problem from a programmer perspective,
> but when these errors are  introduced, there is no
> programmer present. [snip] This does not "silently ignore" the  errors,
> it reports them in an appropriate way, to the appropriate  person.
> 
> Now, you could make the case that you, as a programmer, should  still have
> the error reported to you by the library so that you can log it 
> (if  the library doesn't have built-in logging support), which of course
> would also  allow you to promptly proceed to ignore everything
> that's been said and make the  error handlers throw exceptions. :-) 

Actually it may be it is better to make boost::locale::format to add something
to formatted message like

  cout << format(translate("Hello World {1}")) % param;

The is translate to "bonjour le monde {1" (missed "}"

Would print:

   "[syntax error] bonjour le monde {1"

Instead of 

   "bonjour le monde"

However I'm not sure if it is desired default behavior. But interesting
point to think about.

Artyom
>