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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 20:15:22 +0100
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> That does not apply to Ada which is typed. In Ada I would do:
>
>    X : Meats := 1;
>
>    Put_Line ("You have" & Image (X));
>
> and Image (Meats) will produce "1 meat".

This makes perfect sense - if you're only going to communicate in
English.  I can't see how you can extrapolate that to multiple
languages.  And definitely not multiple languages added dynamically
after compiling the program.

Greetings,

Jacob
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