Why not use the condition macro so you have a single string literal, that in the future could be used for translation?

E.g.��

| occurences |

occurences := 3.

'There <1?is:are> <2p> <1?occurrence:ocurrences> of <3p>' expandMacrosWith: occurences = 1 with: 3 with: 'Foo'

Esteban A. Maringolo

El mi��., 20 feb. 2019 a las 18:08, Tim Mackinnon (<tim@testit.works>) escribi��:

I was browsing some of the Pharo issues (always worth doing) - and noticed an interesting one about Test results reporting and pluralisation
(https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2578)

In it, I hadn't noticed String>>asPluralBasedOn: before (and judging from many messages in the image, many others hadn't either).

I'm fixing something similar for a refactoring bug and can use this technique there (although from memory, it comes with a health warning as if ever we want to internalise the messages in Pharo, this will need a different approach). However we are probably a distance from doing that - so cleaning up what we have is a good start.

Anyway I was curious if there is something to help with messages like:

��There is 1 occurrence of {1}�� vs ��There are many occurrences of {1}��, which I��d like to write something like:

��There ��,�� (��is 1 ��, ��are many ��) pick: result size, ��occurrence�� asPluralBasedOn: result size, �� ,�� result printString.

Tim