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> [: Ingo Kl=C3=B6cker :]
> I wonder whether we really need such a complicated solution for multiple
> arguments. I'm a bit concerned about the performance penalty that's=20
> caused by this complicated construction.

Performance is really not an issue here, as we're talking about GUI stuff.

Anyway, if you'd really want to know, this particular thing (simple=20
message, three placeholders, all QString arguments: the worst case) slow=20
current code down about twice, but still delivering over 200,000 messages=20
per second on my 1.67 GHz. And if I make all tree arguments ints, than it=20
is only factor 1.3 slower. In general, any further complication (like=20
plurals, context, future enhancements) will only narrow this gap of few=20
indirections.

> Therefore at least for me, in the multiple argument case, something like
>  i18n( const char *text, const QString & a1, const QString & a2, const=20
> QString & a3 )
> would suffice because currently for using QString::arg( a1, a2, a3 ) we
> already need to convert numbers to QString ourselves.

But if you don't have to, why not allow for that (performance not being the=
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issue)? And I'm not sure that people wouldn't object having to use that=20
QString::number() whenever numerical argument comes, even if no special=20
formating is needed.

> [...] the additional idea with qarg() [is] superfluous because the
> developer would use
> i18n("Directory %1: %2 MB", dir, QString::number(size, 5)).

I was just aiming at providing already common arg() behaviour, I don't=20
insist since it is just for rare formating needs. Can be added later if=20
needed, as it is independant of the base system.

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