> So do we just add "#define BYE_french BYE_generic"? Well, what about when
> we want to add support for Elbonian? We'd have to trash through all the
> files, adding "#define BYE_elbonian BYE_generic" and so on for each and
> every message. Not a good prospect.
>
> There must be some clever way to do this with preprocessor directives, so
> that INTERNATIONAL(BYE) would expand to BYE_generic instead of BYE_french
> (in the given example), and also if LANGUAGE was defined as something that
> the kernel didn't know of. So saying -DLANGUAGE=_elbonain with a
> non-Elbonian capable kernel would just result in every message being _generic.
The preprocessor simply isn't powerful enough to do this sort of thing.
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