Allow aliases in dictionaries

[philipa]

Peter,

What do you think to aliases in dictionaries:

 {:en  {:example {
    :bar {:baz ":en :example.bar/baz text"}
    :greeting  "Hello {0}, how are you?"
    :yo :example/greeting
    :baz2 :example.bar/baz}

Usage:

(with-locale :en
  (is (= (t :example/yo "Bob") "Hello Bob, how are you?"))
  (is (= (t :example/baz2) (t :example.bar/baz))))

?

Benefits:

• A little more flexibility when maintaining large translation files - e.g. you can leave legacy keys in place and not update all the code that uses them at that time.
• You might use scopes to define a set of standard keys for a repeating class of things, but want to share the translation values.
• General DRYness.

If you like this, you might also consider allowing

...
:bar2 :bar}
....
(is (= (t :example.bar2/baz) (t :example.bar/baz)))

- Phil

[philipa]

Damn it. Wrong branch.