Re: I18N gettext style

[Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

This is the way I did it in one of the frameworks I wrote. 

One of the nice things Ada provides is the standard way of dealing with
unconstrained arrays...

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On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Jeff Carter wrote:

|David Starner wrote:
|> 
|> 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.
|
|My instinct is to only have one, which can handle an indeterminate
|number of arguments:
|
|with Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
|use Ada.Strings.Unbounded;
|...
|type String_Set is array (Positive range <>) of Unbounded_String;
|
|procedure Print (Format : in String; Arguments : in String_Set);
|...
|Print
|(Format    => "There are %s arguments.", -- is this correct?
| Arguments => (1 => Image (Num_Args) );
|
|-- 
|Jeff Carter
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