What's missing from Phobos for Orbit (package manager)

[qznc]

On Tuesday, 12 February 2013 at 16:38:54 UTC, FG wrote:
> On 2013-02-12 15:21, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> string pluralize(string x, int count)
>> {
>>    return count > 1 ? x ~ "s" : x;
>> }
>
> You mean: return count != 1 ? x ~ "s" : x;
> For special cases there could be a third optional argument:
>
>     string pluralize(int count, string sng, string pl="") {
>         return count == 1 ? sng : pl.length ? pl : sng ~ "s";
>     }
>     writeln(pluralize(2, "cat"));
>     writeln(pluralize(2, "radius", "radii"));
>
>
> That's for simple English-only pluralization, before we jump 
> into translations.

Do not go down that rabbit hole! Just skim over the following 
links to get an idea how complicated this becomes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Localization_and_Plurals
http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq19-plurals.html

I am not sure, if any internationalization stuff should be in 
std. No matter how you do it, it will be too simple for some and 
too over-engineered for others.

There will always be multiple solutions on different levels of 
power and applications have to choose, which suits them best.

My advice: If you find your self wanting that, try to rephrase 
first.

For example, instead of "there are %d cat(s)" output "number of 
cats: %d". It will be much easier to internationalize.