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On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > > On Tue 6.Jul'10 at 9:43:59 -0700, Todd Rinaldo wrote: >> # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76402 > >> > Locale::Maketext already has functionality to do what you want. > The _AUTO meta-entry in %Lexicon allows fallthrough to use the requested > $key as the $value. And then your base lexicon uses even _less_ memory. > > The value of having your translators hand-copy the content of your > default lexicon doesn't feel like much of a win for the added > complexity. > Jesse, Onesided-ness is a complementary feature to _AUTO, not a replacement. When you have code that uses _AUTO, Locale fall back happens. The only way to prevent this is to inject a key with an equivalent value to prevent fallback. Sometimes unexpected defaulting might happen. This isn't something you'd use all the time, but in the cases where you do, onesided-ness is more "fat-finger safe" than duping key and value pairs. Having key/value pairs is also useful when you have _AUTO off. In those cases, the only way have MT not break is to put in a key with an equivalent value. Again, you're more "fat-finger safe" by using one sidedness in those cases. The added complexity only happens once when the statement is compiled, so it shouldn't be that expensive from a code path standpoint. Thanks, Todd RinaldoThread Previous | Thread Next