Re: A better (more portable) way of printing variable argument lists

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199802261904.OAA08193@caip.rutgers.edu>you write:
  >  > From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
  >  > 
  >  > Actually, if we're going to revamp how we handle error messages I'd
  >  > like to see us move more towards a model where we can print errors
  >  > in multiple languages.
  >  > 
  >  > Most modern vendor compilers already do this; GCC never tried because
  >  > RMS opposed numbering warnings/errors (which is how multi-language
  >  > errors work).
  > 
  > 	Wouldn't we use gettext? I thought that package used the actual
  > message text as the key and that it didn't number messages. 
That would be fine too.  I'm not particularly wed to the idea of error #s,
they just seem to be the easiest way to index into the message catalog.

If better ways exist, then I see no reason not to use them when the
time comes.

jeff