Re: [Rails-devel] Constants

[John A. T. <ja...@ja...>]

brett lentz wrote:

>Of course.  I was more meaning things like the many static strings
>that we use on buttons and labels (e.g. "ok" and "done") or static
>numbers like SQRT3 that are duplicated across the GUI files, etc.
>  
>
Speaking of strings, what is the plan for localization?  I have always 
used GNU gettext myself, but I am not sure how that works with the Java 
approach (even though I see there is a port of gettext to Java).

If we aren't using something like that, then perhaps isolating all the 
UI strings into a single class would make it easier to localize, perhaps 
even using ClassLoader to load the appropriate one from a preference 
setting.

It's too bad Sun didn't include java.lang.Math.SQRT3 etc, and that you 
can't easily add constant definitions to a class.

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