[PATCH] fdo#39468: translate German comments (=> filter/inc/filter/msfilter/msdffimp.hxx) plus questions

[Philipp Riemer]

2012/6/25 Noel Grandin <noel at peralex.com>:
>
> On 2012-06-25 15:32, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 20:45 +0200, Philipp Riemer wrote:
>>>
>>> (2) In addition, I was wondering if it would be possible to shorten
>>> parameters (e.g. "com::sun::star::uno::Reference <
>>> com::sun::star::embed::XStorage >& xDestStg") by using aliases or
>>> other ways to point to that namespaces. But I am not skilled enough in
>>> C++ to do that (see e.g. patch 0003 for examples).
>>
>>        The great hope is LibreOffice 4 - which will discard the
>> com::sun::star
>> prefix and/or do something sensible instead here, making our APIs much
>> easier to read.
>>
>>        There was also hope for a transitional set of namespace aliases,
>> but I
>> forget why that was shot down, in the meantime we have that ugly,
>> tangled madness (sadly) :-)
>
>
>
> Perhaps we could adopt a transitional scheme, where we move our types and
> definitions to a new namespace, but leave aliases in the current namespace?
> i.e. in pseudo-code:
>
>  namespace shiny
>  {
>     class Reference ..... yada yada.....
>  }
>  namespace com.sun.star.uno
>  {
>      typedef ::shiny::Reference Reference;
>  }
>
> Does that sound reasonable (have no real idea, given my lack of C++
> experience).

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that exact step was proposed and
also rejected after discussion a few weeks ago.