Re: Formatted IO - Fortran style or similar.

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

stefan-lucks@see-the.signature writes:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>> How would you handle translatable user visible strings - such as
>> "Parsing '${file_name}' failed on line ${line_number}." (where
>> "${...}" identifies parameter substitutions) - in Ada?
>
> Why do you need to *substitute* the parameters in the string at all?
>
> Without substitution, the following seems to work fine:
>
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("Parsing "         & File_Name & 
>                        " failed on line " & To_String(Line_Number) & 
>                        ".");

Yes.  But how do you translate that text without having to recompile
the whole application?

My question was related to _translatable_ user visible strings.  If I
just want to make an all-American program, your proposed solution is
fine, but when I want to make it easy to translate the user visible
strings in an application you proposed solution is unacceptable.

Greetings,

Jacob
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