Well, obviously, you're missing the mood. Besides, I see two issues with that: - While it may be more machine-readable, it's absolutely not human readable -

Well, obviously, you're missing the mood. Besides, I see two issues with that: - While it may be more machine-readable, it's absolutely not human readable - Something like (OPRONOUN (3, 0)) assumes that pronouns work like in English. Want to represent text in a language for which it is not the case with this system? No dice. In short, I'd rather have an improved gettext (without hacks to detect if you're gettext'ing printf'd text...) than your proposed AST solution.