On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 19:38:56 UTC, qznc wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 16:38:54 UTC, FG wrote:
On 2013-02-12 15:21, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
string pluralize(string x, int count)
{
return count > 1 ? x ~ "s" : x;
}
You mean: return count != 1 ? x ~ "s" : x;
For special cases there could be a third optional argument:
string pluralize(int count, string sng, string pl="") {
return count == 1 ? sng : pl.length ? pl : sng ~ "s";
}
writeln(pluralize(2, "cat"));
writeln(pluralize(2, "radius", "radii"));
That's for simple English-only pluralization, before we jump
into translations.
Do not go down that rabbit hole! Just skim over the following
links to get an idea how complicated this becomes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Localization_and_Plurals
http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq19-plurals.html
I am not sure, if any internationalization stuff should be in
std. No matter how you do it, it will be too simple for some
and too over-engineered for others.
There will always be multiple solutions on different levels of
power and applications have to choose, which suits them best.
My advice: If you find your self wanting that, try to rephrase
first.
For example, instead of "there are %d cat(s)" output "number of
cats: %d". It will be much easier to internationalize.
Agreed. It's such an enormous problem, even just in English.
You're much better off creating a special tool that satisfies
your own needs for the specific set of words that you need
pluralisin.
