Re: String access & metamethods

On Dec 13, 2007 6:35 AM, Brett Kugler <bkugler@gmail.com> wrote:
> First I have stringent memory limits I must stay within. My concern with
> creating new variables for each string would be that my heap burden would
> grow significantly.

If that's a concern then you don't want to have every translation in
memory at the same time, as all the schemes we've been playing around
with have done.

The real KISS approach is just to load a file like:

-- localizations.lua
if language == "German" then
DidNotWork = "Operasie het nie geslaag nie"
NoAnswer = "Antwoord nie gefind nie"
elseif language == "Martian" then
DidNotWork = "Pqfsbtjf!ifu!ojf!hftmbbh!ojf"
NoAnswer = "Bouxppse!ojf!hfgjoe!ojf"
else -- default to English
DidNotWork = "Operation did not succeed"
NoAnswer = "No answer found"
end

-- yourapp.lua
language = "German"
dofile("localizations.lua")
...
print(DidNotWork)
print(NoAnswer)

Then you have *one* set of text and some relatively short identifier
names loaded in memory.

Cheers,
Eric