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On 20.02.14 02:09, Simon Clubley wrote:

> Are you familiar with the VMS $FAO directive (which is the way VMS does
> template formatting) ?
>
> Background material on $FAO is at:
>
> 	http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/4527/4527pro_047.html
> [... !%S]
> Something like that would handle this problem rather cleanly.

Would this address the needs of international language processing?
Even English has plural words without 's'; other grammars might
need different ways of representing plurals altogether; I understand
that doubling a word or syllable or symbol is a scheme for expressing
plurals in East Asia, for example.

Handling natural language issues is a bit too tricky
to be part of a regular programming formalism, I think.