Re: [PATCH/RFC v8 0/2] Gettext support for Git

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 21:29, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [off-list ref] writes:

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This is version 8 of the series to make Git optionally translatable
with GNU gettext.

Changes since version 7:

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   * Add back support (and a new test) for the no-op N_() macro. This
     is used for marking translations for later use, e.g.:

        const char help[] =
              N_("See 'git help COMMAND' for more information on a specific command.");

        int main(void)
        {
            puts(_(help));

Shouldn't you add also corresponding N__ subroutine to Git::I18N
module?

 # Dummy functions for string marking.
 sub N__($) {
       return shift;
 }

I don't really see the need. It's very useful in C because you can't
call functions outside function bodies (like in the example
above). Perl has no such restriction, so I don't see the use case.

Can you think of one? Perhaps I'm just being unimaginative.