From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T01:41:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Ruby for educational purposes and localization

gabriele renzi wrote:
> 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?
> 

That sounds like a possibility. Another would be to build a "custom"
Ruby by editing the source and translating the keywords. I don't
think this is as hard as it sounds.


Hal