From the course: Localization for Developers
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Avoiding string concatenation and string reuse
From the course: Localization for Developers
Avoiding string concatenation and string reuse
- While you're still in the process of taking all of the strings out of your code, you also need to pay attention to how those strings are being used. In particular, I'd like to warn you against treating language programmatically. Sometimes we want to create what are called Natural Language Statements by cobbling different strings and variables together, for example, what you see here. Here, we're defining the log variable as equal to a string, "You sent a message to ". Then we're going to concatenate on another variable, which is the user name. We're going to concatenate another small string, " at ", and then we're going to concatenate a time variable. Now, this generates a very nice, easy to read, log entry for our end users that says, "You sent a message to Arthur at 10:15." This becomes problematic because you can't make any assumptions about how other languages are structured or formatted. In Japanese, for example, the parts of this message are basically reversed. I've…
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