Two standard libraries?

[Sean Kelly]

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
> 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.

How would such identifiers be matched up with variadic arguments?


Sean