From: Claus Spitzer <DocBoobenstein@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T02:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Ruby for educational purposes and localization

But what will you do for external modules where they use the english
keywords as method names? e.g. I have a class that uses a 2D array of
custom objects, and I've implemented an 'each' method... the keyword
would be changed to, say "jeden", but my class would still expect
"each".

On Mon, 24 May 2004 02:12:51 +0900, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>