[Sugar-devel] Feedback from the field TurtleArt

Simon Schampijer simon at schampijer.de
Tue Sep 28 07:29:32 EDT 2010


On 09/28/2010 12:58 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:43 AM, Simon Schampijer<simon at schampijer.de>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> a) '.' versus ',' for floating point numbers
>>
>> In TA you can only use the dot to specify a floating point number. In
>> languages like German and Spanish floating point numbers are specified
>> with a ','. I think we should either make it locale dependent (can be
>> seen in the output of Calculate), or we just allow to use '.' and ','
>> (the latter might have some side effects though).
>
> I should fix that.

Excellent, would be great!

>> b) the term 'turn left [number]' has been changed to 'left [number]'. I
>> liked the use of the term 'turn' here. Furthermore those changes should
>> be made with care as we break not only translation but documentation as
>> well.
>
> I don't recall 'turn left [number]' being used. Do you recall where
> and in which version? (In LOGO, it has always been just 'left
> [number]'.

I guess it was just like that in the german translation:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/turtleart/repos/mainline/blobs/sucrose-0.86/po/de.po#line858

I guess I should ask the german translator.

Regards,
    Simon


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