[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41305: Add lazily evaluated translations

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#41305: Add lazily evaluated translations
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 Reporter:  schlessera   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |     Version:  4.8
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch    |     Focuses:  rest-api, performance
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Comment (by schlessera):

 > One thing that bugs me about this patch here is that it would make
 transitioning to a new translation system (still dreaming of
 MessageFormat) much harder because of all the new functions and classes.

 I think that this should not be an issue, because the added functions are
 basically lazy wrappers around `translate()`. They don't do any
 translation themselves, and when you would change the backend
 implementation for `translate()`, theses lazy variations are taken care of
 automatically.

 > I like keeping it simple with _noop() and translate_noop().

 I don't think that's simpler. It is simpler code in the implementation,
 but then makes every single usage of it more complex as a result, as you
 are splitting up the usage into two separate steps, and are making this
 much more error-prone.

 > Would you mind using .diff file extensions next time so we have syntax
 highlighting here in Trac? Thanks :-)

 Uh, sure, I wasn't aware of that distinction. Had mostly avoided Trac
 before... ;)

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