From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-05-23T22:43:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Ruby for educational purposes and localization

il Sun, 23 May 2004 13:53:59 +0200, Laurent Julliard
<laurent__no__@__spam__moldus.org> ha scritto::

>
>So I started to think about a way by which one could define "synonyms" 
>for all Ruby reserved keywords in another language (e.g in French 
>"while" would be "tantque", "do" becomes "faire", etc...). All this 
>should be done while preserving the ability to require any existing 
>Ruby module written in plain english.
>
>I would be happy to start a discussion on that topic and welcome any 
>input on what the alternatives would be to do this?

have you thought about writing a dumb wrapper around ruby that just
does a gsub!(/word/,'mot') of the script and then pipes it into the
real ruby?