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From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)
Subject: Re: I18N gettext style
Date: 2000/03/04
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Date: 2000-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
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On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 08:28:01 GMT, tmoran@bix.com <tmoran@bix.com> wrote:
>>  Ada.Text_IO.Put (N("Hi! There are ") && To_String(I) && N("widgets!"));
>>won't put I in the proper position in the translated message for some
>  Certainly an Ada version of printf in the form of a set like
>    procedure print0(s : in string);
>    procedure print1(s : in string; a : in string);
>    procedure print2(s : in string; a : in string; b : in string);

Is there any reason you used print0, print1, print2, instead of
print, print, print? My instinct is to overload them.

>  Better yet, instead of %s, use %a in print1, %a and %b in print2,
>etc, and then N can even change the order, which it can't in the
>C paradigm.

Or %1 and %2, for compatibility with current systems.

Thanks.

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU