Some great suggestions here guys - I had forgotten there were conditionals in expandMacros��� that is the better solution.

Although I do kind of think that something on OrderedCollection like:

chooseBasedOn: count

^self at: ((count max: 1) min: self size)

Would be a nice general solution for other things (I���m kind of suprised there isn���t something like that there)

On 20 Feb 2019, at 21:21, Esteban Maringolo <emaringolo@gmail.com> wrote:

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