# Re: \[PATCH\] gettext: remove optional non-standard parens in N\_() definition

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- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/09/7901163/t

## Re: \[PATCH\] gettext: remove optional non-standard parens in N\_() definition

- From: Junio C Hamano \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-09-02 19:19:26 
- Message: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/09/7901163.md

```text
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  [ref] writes:

> Remove the USE_PARENS_AROUND_GETTEXT_N compile-time option which was
> meant to catch an inadvertent mistakes which is too obscure to
> maintain this facility.
> ...
> I don't care how this lands exactly, but thin (eye of the beholder and
> all that) that the commit message above is better. Carlo: Feel free to
> steal it partially or entirely, I also made this a "PATCH" instead of
> "RFC PATCH" in case Junio feels like queuing this, then you could
> build your DEVOPTS=pedantic by default here on top.

FWIW, I think this goes in the right direction, and I'd rather not
to have to handle too many multi-patch topics in which one step
takes hostage the other steps.

Thanks, all.
```