Two standard libraries?

[Roberto Mariottini]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
[...]
> Now look at a language like Japanese, where you'd probably put the database 
> name first; it'd be arranged something like "in personnel database {}, 
> employee {} does not exist".  Now you have to change the order of the 
> arguments after the format string.  But with indexing, you can say {0} 
> always is the employee name, and {1} always is the database name, so that 
> you can format them in the correct order for other languages, without having 
> to change the actual format code.  Just change the format string.

May I suggest to use an identifier instead of a numeric index?
I have several years of experience with multi-language code and I can 
say that for a translator is better.

For example:

"{0} has {1} pieces in {2}"

Could be:

"{supplier} has {stock} pieces in {city}"

and make the translator happy.

Ciao