From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T02:12:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Ruby for educational purposes and localization

On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:41:35AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.

That's really easy, just edit file "keywords" and rebuild the Ruby
interpreter. I quickly tried this out by germanizing some keywords as
shown below (note that it wasn't possible to build the full "ruby"
executable easily this way, only miniruby): 

% miniruby
  wenn 1 == 1 dann
    puts "okay"
  ansonsten
    puts "falsch"
  ende

BUT: Mixing different keyword languages is not possible in this way. 

Regards,

  Michael