KDE4 proposal: Paths in i18n strings

[Frans Englich]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 16:36, Chusslove Illich wrote:
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> There is another possible annoyance with just taking QFile without a
> wrapper. Programmer might be unaware that being able to use QFile directly
> is not just a convenience, but produces markup as well. So he might
> *additionally* put markup inside message string. Having wrappers makes
> this mistake less likely.

I don't see this as a problem. It only occurs when a programmer 1) have 
started using the API without understanding what it does or why; and 2) 
haven't applied quality assurance to his application in order to spot such 
mistakes. So I don't think this aspect should affect any API design.


Cheers,

		Frans