Re: Programming for the World in Ada95

[Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>]

"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 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;

Well sure, but the point was to be able to have translated strings come from a
data file rather than being hard coded into the program.

That way, one can do translations after the fact, and farm out translation
tasks to consultants who know the languages, but are not necessarily
programmers.

Most importantly, that way you can have the same software that runs anywhere
and have it dynamically decide which translation data to use, based on the
locale information as provided by the operating system.

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