After having had to append // NOI18N to a
gazillion lines of code commented out within
/* DEBUG */ I figured there's gotta be a better
way to do this. THe best thing of course would be
to use NB's parsing technology and do all this on
a token basis. So for example one need not
use // NOI18N within comments or with 
	"msg " +
	"msg part 2" +
	"msg part 3"
spanning multiple lines. But this is a fair amount
of work. 

Here's a slightly simpler porposal:

if a file begins with /* FILENOI18N */
all strings thereafter are implicitly NOI18N.
The occasional string that is in need of
translation
can then be escaped using // DOI18N

We can become even more perverse with stuff like
/* NOI18N_BEGIN */
/* NOI18N_END */
The trouble with this is that it's hard to check
nesting and all that sort of stuff.

I'd also like ot insist on the use of /* */
instead of //. // is defined as a "line" comment, 
while /* */ is more appropriately used for
regions.