Hi. On 29.04.16 05:31, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution wrote: >> – Inserting a number into a sentence often requires adjusting other parts of >> the sentence (nouns, verbs, articles) to the number. And while English has >> only singular and plural, other languages distinguish more cases – up to six >> for Arabic. >> >> – Inserting a name or noun into a sentence often requires adjusting other >> parts of the sentence to the gender of the person or noun. While in English >> gender usually is only reflected in pronouns, its impact is pervasive in >> some other languages. >> >> – Formats for numbers and dates should be specified at a high enough level >> that they can be automatically translated by internationalization libraries. >> For example, don’t specify the order of year, month, day and the characters >> to be used around them; specify just whether you want to have a long or a >> short form and which components, and let an internationalization library >> handle the rest. > > This is all true, but it's also all handled by Foundation on Apple platforms > and hopefully by Corelibs Foundation elsewhere. We ought to be able to hook > into this existing machinery.
That's what I think, too: Let Foundation handle the "how to translate", my proposal is just "syntactic sugar". Since I did not see any more concerns about the proposal, I'd like to push my proposal forward. Can anyone give me a hint what to do next? Would sending a pull request be the next step? (The evolution readme just says "Ideas should be thoroughly discussed on the swift-evolution mailing list first." Have we reached this point?) Thanks for your input, Daniel _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
