On 26/01/2008, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thinking > about the problem of pluralization in interpolated strings, where we > get things like: > > say "Received $m message{ 1==$m ?? '' !! 's' }." > > ... > > Any other cute ideas?
No matter what you do it will remain too English-centric. It might work for Catalan, too. But it will remain totally useless for Arabic or Chinese. In any case, i don't understand why should this be in the core language at all. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni English - http://aharoni.wordpress.com Hebrew - http://haharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore