keyword: remove docstrings to ease translation

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Tue Feb 10 07:21:44 CST 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 14:01, Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> Thanks, but I already have a patch ready which will remove the
> comments in all the extensions. That removes some 124 useless messages
> from the hg.pot file.
>
> I haven't pushed it since I'm not sure if others agree to solve the
> problem this way?

I'd certainly prefer not to move docstring content into comments this way.

Christian, sorry if that's what you understood from me in IRC, I did
not intend it that way.

I think docstrings are eminently useful (easier for developers to use,
e.g. in a Python shell), more so than comments.

Cheers,

Dirkjan


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