[cfe-commits] r59803 - in /cfe/trunk:

[Chris Lattner]

On Nov 21, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:

> Chris Lattner wrote:
>> On Nov 21, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
>>> I was planning to implement a modifier that works like this:
>>> "We have %0 %c0{1:mouse|:mice}"
>>> i.e. a simple case statement. ("case parameter 0 in") The modifer  
>>> picks an
>>> integral argument and executes the case. It could be more  
>>> complicated for
>>> languages that, say, have different forms for 0, 1, 2, and more  
>>> cases:
>>> "%c0{0:something|1:somethingelse|2:yetanotherthing|:finaloption}"
>>
>> Sure, this works for me.  A few requests: please use a longer  
>> modifier name than "c" (I don't have any specific suggestions  
>> though).  My intent is for tricky things to use longer names (like  
>> 'select') and very few but common things to use short names like 's'.
> OK.
>>   Second, please consider supporting ranges: %whatever{3-7:blah},  
>> so we can handle Polish:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/gettext/Plural-forms.html
> Actually, I'll have to make this even more complex, because you'd  
> need a very large number of ranges with the repeating pattern in  
> Polish.

Your right.  Don't worry about ranges for now (unless you want  
them :).  Polish can get its own modifier when needed.

-Chris