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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> wrote:
 

: If you have strings
: meant for display to the end user, you should place them in a separate
: file and use gettext.

Ada is enough here I think, and has the advantage that you can
have an Ada compiler check the completeness of messages.


with Languages;  use Languages;

package Program_Messages is

   type Wide_String_Access is access constant Wide_String;

   type Msg_ID is (too_high, too_low);
   type Text_Message_List is array(Msg_ID) of Wide_String_Access;
   type Message_Table is array (Language) of Text_Message_List;

   Message: constant Message_Table :=
     (English =>
        (too_high => new Wide_String'("more than the program can handle"),
         too_low => new Wide_String'("not enough")),
      German =>
        (too_high => new Wide_String'("mehr als das Programm handhaben kann"),
         too_low => new Wide_String'("zu wenig")));

end Program_Messages;