Ray Blaak a �crit dans le message ...
>The fix is, of course, named placement holders:
>
>"there are ${total_count} bad things here, ${critical_count} of which
matter"
>


And what about:

function Critical_Error (Total_Count, Critical_Count : in Positive) return
String is
begin
   return "there are" & Positive'Image (Total_Count) & " bad things here,"
      & Positive'Image (Critical_Count) & " of which matter";
end Critical_Error;

Now there is no problem with reordering :)

For a multi-lingual error system a OO design will do as in:

type Error_Message is abstract tagged private;

function Critical_Error (E : Error_Message;
      Total_Count, Critical_Count : in Positive) return string is abstract;

type English_EM is new Error_Message with private;

function Critical_Error (E : English_EM;
      Total_Count, Critical_Count : in Positive) return string is abstract;

type French_EM is new Error_Message with private;

function Critical_Error (E : French_EM;
      Total_Count, Critical_Count : in Positive) return string is abstract;

Pascal.

PS : this code has not been check by any compiler except myself so it could
just not compile :)

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