These days we are supposed to think about internationalisation and localisation. The rather elderly and inadequate '<1P> foobar<2?:s>' expandMacrosWith: n with: n = 1 works fine for English, but when you switch to '<1P> foobar<2?:s>' translated expandMacrosWith: n with: n = 1 you run into the problem that there are languages, such as Hebrew and Modern Standard Arabic, with a dual number, so that you need to distinguish 1, 2, >2 cases. Then there are the oddball languages with a "paucal" number. Generally it is better to rephrase the text, 'Number of foobars = <1P>' expandMacrosWith: n. On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 10:08, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
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:
âThere is 1 occurrence of {1}â vs âThere are many occurrences of {1}â, which Iâd like to write something like:
âThere â, (âis 1 â, âare many â) pick: result size, âoccurrenceâ asPluralBasedOn: result size, â â, result printString.
Tim