> I find that it makes it considerably easier to search for error messages

On this specific topic, I would be interested in having OCaml compiler error messages numbered, just as warnings already are, precisely because it makes it much easier to reference them (is robust to change of wording), and for example look up a specific error in the manual for further explanations -- we recently started doing this for warnings, see http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/comp.html#sec270 .

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:

It looks like people have already mentioned getttext.

I want to add that OCaml already has an excellent gettext
implementation.  No need to reinvent any wheels.

  https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext/

We use it every day in libguestfs, an example picked at random
(there are thousands more):

  https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/v2v/input_libvirt.ml#L39

Therefore you might think I'd be very exciting about having the OCaml
compiler messages being localized.  That not so much.  I find that it
makes it considerably easier to search for error messages, and also to
help people, if they are in a single language.  It's for this reason
that we don't translate debugging and other internal messages in our
tools.  (But being an English native speaker it's a lot easier for me,
so take this with a pinch of salt.)

Rich.

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