Re: String access & metamethods

["steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>]

Yes, someone got some Afrikaans in there somewhere !  I know that a
linguist would consider that a _kind of German_, but so is English ;)

I agree with lhf, this is a classic case where token filters would
work nicely. Remember also that you don't have to _define_ new token
types, because something like '$' will pass through untranslated -
print($NoResourcesLeft), etc.

The big payoff is that your translation occurs at compile time. So you
could use luac to generate bytecode and store that - although in my
experience token filters are suprisingly fast.

steve d.


On Dec 13, 2007 10:32 PM, Ashwin Hirschi <deery@chello.nl> wrote:
>
> >    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
>
> That Martian bit is spot on, obviously. But I'm afraid the German section still needs some work [;-)].
>
> Ashwin.
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