From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: Text_IO, was: Re: Something I don't understand
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:53:58 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2014-02-20T12:53:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <le4tt5$23t$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5305ec51$0$9502$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net
On 2014-02-20, G.B. <rm-dash-bau-haus@dash.futureapps.de> wrote:
> On 20.02.14 02:09, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> Are you familiar with the VMS $FAO directive (which is the way VMS does
>> template formatting) ?
>>
>> Background material on $FAO is at:
>>
>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/4527/4527pro_047.html
>> [... !%S]
>> Something like that would handle this problem rather cleanly.
>
> Would this address the needs of international language processing?
> Even English has plural words without 's'; other grammars might
> need different ways of representing plurals altogether; I understand
> that doubling a word or syllable or symbol is a scheme for expressing
> plurals in East Asia, for example.
>
That's why VMS Engineering added the option to $FAO which allows a
application specified word to be inserted based on the value of the
previous number.
I'm not saying we should duplicate this exactly. I just mentioned it as
a real world example of a template formatting system which has conditional
formatting built into it.
> Handling natural language issues is a bit too tricky
> to be part of a regular programming formalism, I think.
>
It's certainly not easy. I wonder how something like gettext would
handle this problem ? (I've never had to support foreign languages
in my code so I don't know the answer to that question.)
Simon.
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2014-02-13 23:57 Something I don't understand Laurent
2014-02-14 0:18 ` adambeneschan
2014-02-14 7:05 ` Charles H. Sampson
2014-02-15 15:27 ` Laurent
2014-02-15 19:10 ` Laurent
2014-02-15 20:05 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-15 21:16 ` Laurent
2014-02-15 21:40 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-16 1:39 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-16 9:08 ` Text_IO, was: " Simon Clubley
2014-02-16 9:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-16 16:57 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-02-16 16:17 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-17 12:52 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-17 15:32 ` G.B.
2014-02-17 15:35 ` G.B.
2014-02-17 17:34 ` Mike H
2014-02-17 16:59 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-17 17:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-17 17:42 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-17 19:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18 7:14 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18 8:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18 9:00 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18 9:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19 8:36 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 9:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19 13:20 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 14:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-19 15:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-19 16:32 ` Laurent
2014-02-19 17:46 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20 2:39 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-02-20 11:44 ` G.B.
2014-02-19 21:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-20 9:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 18:19 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 15:06 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19 17:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 22:30 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-17 18:13 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-17 20:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-18 7:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-18 8:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-17 20:22 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18 0:50 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-18 6:56 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-18 8:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-02-19 22:01 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20 8:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 15:54 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20 17:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-02-20 20:45 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 21:52 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20 0:50 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-19 21:46 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-20 0:09 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-20 1:09 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20 7:06 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-20 13:05 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-20 11:51 ` G.B.
2014-02-20 12:53 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2014-02-21 11:50 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-23 21:37 ` AdaMagica
2014-02-23 23:23 ` Bill Findlay
2014-02-24 4:29 ` AdaMagica
2014-02-24 12:22 ` Brian Drummond
2014-02-24 19:03 ` AdaMagica
2014-02-20 20:02 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-02-19 21:15 ` Robert A Duff
2014-02-19 22:01 ` Simon Clubley
2014-02-16 14:50 ` Mike H
2014-02-17 16:09 ` Laurent
2014-02-17 17:42 ` Mike H
2014-02-18 1:05 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2014-02-17 22:31 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-02-19 12:51 ` Laurent
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