[Rd] typo in R-ints.texi's description of P_ macro
Peter Dalgaard
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Apr 7 18:58:40 CEST 2009
William Dunlap wrote:
> I think there are some missing words in "R Internals"'s description of
> the P_ macro.
> It currently has "A macro as a wrapper for ngettext", which I think
> ought to be
> something like "The macro P_ may be used as a wrapper for ngettext".
>
> The following patch also makes the 2 alternate definitions of P_ have
> the same argument names,
> StringS and StringP. Expanding the S and P to Singular and Plural,
> would be more descriptive.
>
> Bill Dunlap
> TIBCO Software Inc - Spotfire Division
> wdunlap tibco.com
>
>
> Index: doc/manual/R-ints.texi
> ===================================================================
> --- doc/manual/R-ints.texi (revision 48294)
> +++ doc/manual/R-ints.texi (working copy)
> @@ -2149,17 +2149,18 @@
> @noindent
> from @file{src/main/errors.c}.
>
> -A macro
> +The @code{P_} macro
>
> @example
> #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
> #define P_(StringS, StringP, N) ngettext (StringS, StringP, N)
> #else
> -#define P_(String, StringP, N) (N > 1 ? StringP: String)
> +#define P_(StringS, StringP, N) (N > 1 ? StringP: StringS)
> #endif
> @end example
>
> @noindent
> +may be used
> as a wrapper for @code{ngettext}: however in some cases the preferred
> approach has been to conditionalize (on @code{ENABLE_NLS}) code using
> @code{ngettext}.
>
OK, committed.
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