Make defaultLocale public

pkg/intl/lib/intl.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 /**
  * This library provides internationalization and localization. This includes
  * message formatting and replacement, date and number formatting and parsing,
  * and utilities for working with Bidirectional text.
  *
  * ## Installing ##
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  *              'other': '$num_people other people'})} in $place.''',
  *          name: 'msg',
  *          args: [num_people, place],
  *          desc: 'Description of how many people are seen as program start.',
  *          examples: {'num_people': 3, 'place': 'London'});
  *
  * Calling `msg(2, 'Athens');` would
  * produce "I see 2 other people in Athens." as output in the default locale.
  *
  * To use a locale other than the default, use the `withLocale` function.
+ * You can set the default locale.
+ *       Intl.defaultLocale = "pt_BR";
+ *
+ * To temporarily use a locale other than the default, use the `withLocale`
+ * function.
  *       var todayString = new DateFormat("pt_BR").format(new DateTime.now());
  *       print(withLocale("pt_BR", () => today(todayString));
  *
  * See `tests/message_format_test.dart` for more examples.
  */
  //TODO(efortuna): documentation example involving the offset parameter?
 
 class Intl {
   /**
    * String indicating the locale code with which the message is to be
    * formatted (such as en-CA).
    */
   String _locale;
 
   /** The default locale. This defaults to being set from systemLocale, but
    * can also be set explicitly, and will then apply to any new instances where
    * the locale isn't specified.
    */
-  static String _defaultLocale;
+  static String defaultLocale;
 
   /**
    * The system's locale, as obtained from the window.navigator.language
    * or other operating system mechanism. Note that due to system limitations
    * this is not automatically set, and must be set by importing one of
    * intl_browser.dart or intl_standalone.dart and calling findSystemLocale().
    */
   static String systemLocale = 'en_US';
 
   /**
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    *
    * In either case, the purpose of this is to delay calling [message_function]
    * until the proper locale has been set. This returns the result of calling
    * [message_function], which could be of an arbitrary type.
    */
   static withLocale(String locale, Function message_function) {
     // We have to do this silliness because Locale is not known at compile time,
     // but must be a static variable in order to be visible to the Intl.message
     // invocation.
     var oldLocale = getCurrentLocale();
-    _defaultLocale = locale;
+    defaultLocale = locale;
     var result = message_function();
-    _defaultLocale = oldLocale;
+    defaultLocale = oldLocale;
     return result;
   }
 
   /**
    * Accessor for the current locale. This should always == the default locale,
    * unless for some reason this gets called inside a message that resets the
    * locale.
    */
   static String getCurrentLocale() {
-    if (_defaultLocale == null) _defaultLocale = systemLocale;
-    return _defaultLocale;
+    if (defaultLocale == null) defaultLocale = systemLocale;
+    return defaultLocale;
   }
 
   toString() => "Intl($locale)";
 }