On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Trevor
Parscal<tparscal(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 3/30/10 12:26 PM, Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
From: Trevor Parscal
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 5:47 PM
[..] but switching to _ from - might start being popular anyways so a switch over
might be something we could consider.
[sm] personally I very much prefer "-" over "_" in message keys, as
the underscore is ambiguous in a MediaWiki: pagename context. Furthermore having a huge
rename operation of keys just because we want to change the i18n implementation does not
sound like a useful activity...
Siebrand
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Fair enough with the point on MediaWiki: page name context. Do you have
any other thoughts about the idea?
- Trevor
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I'd like to chime in here saying I agree with using - over _. We try to
stick
to - consistently, and the coding guide suggests using it over _. Going the
opposite direction will just confuse people :)
I'd actually like to see us rename all of the message keys (in core at least)
from having _ to -. I agree that it will be disruptive, but if we do
it in the span
of one release (and provide a maintenance script to update page titles), it
would be far less disruptive than trying to do it over time.
-Chad
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I think in either case, making things more consistent would be a good idea.
- Trevor