What does LL stand for?

[bivainis]

Help me settle the debate: is there something that LL stands for in the context of this library? I was trying to read through the readme files and codebase, and couldn't find it documented.

My guesses:

• Loaded Locales
• Localised Language
• Language Locale
• Language Library
• Locale List
• Locale Labels

[ivanhofer]

That's a good question 😅

In most libraries you would probably see a t translation functions.
But since typesafe-i18n can be used in multiple ways, I needed to have three different names so you would be able to immediately tell the difference bretween instances of i18nString, i18nObject and i18n in your code.
The first character that popped up in my mind was l (which probably stands for locale?).
Since it can be hard to tell the difference between

• l (lovercase L) and
• I (uppercase i)

I did choose to use L, resulting into L, LL and LLL for the names of those instances.

[swernerx]

I think the naming is difficult. Feels a bit cumbersome and I wish we might provide more verbose but talking APIs in a future release. BTW: I also don't like the t of i18next.... especially in React Context LL seems unnecessarily short. Considering the barriers to entry and the possibilities of compression, I would prefer msgs for example....

[ivanhofer]

Hi @swernerx,
feel free to suggest a good naming structure for all 3 instances :)
LL is the default export of most modules (where possible) so you can name it whatever you like. And if you really dislike the LL you can always wrap it in a function and return a different naming schema.

[bivainis]

thanks for the in-depth answer, would've never guessed it, can finally find peace in my head :)