On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Luc Maisonobe <l...@spaceroots.org> wrote:
> > I had proposed that error messages be incrementally built from simple > > "base" patterns, to be assembled either at the point where the exception > > is going to be thrown or inside specific exceptions[2] (or a combination > > of both). > > It often doesn't work. Sentences constructions are completely different > in different languages, and it is impossible to simply buid up from > elementary components that are individually translated and assembled > later. See all the documentation about the ancient gettext for example. Modern printf implementations deal with this by numbered arguments. This is not a problem any more. See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax
