Re: [orca-list] code review

[Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont googlemail com>]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> * "gluing" together of strings can result in bogus localization
>
> * "gluing" together of different strings seems to be responsible for
>    some braille related bugs (ordering of elements, cursor routing)
>
> So the solution, aside from making this "something anyone can edit"
> needs to also take into account (and resolve) the above problems.
> Formatting strings was a good idea in theory, but not in practice....


If you look at the second to last code, you can override the plus
operator and use strong typing.
so each string is typed and is not a string but an object instance,
then we can use rules to bind them together, compare the localization
etc. I dont know all the voodoo here, but we can work something out.

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