Le 03/11/2013 20:17, Ted Dunning a écrit : > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Luc Maisonobe <l...@spaceroots.org> wrote: > >>> I had proposed that error messages be incrementally built from simple >>> "base" patterns, to be assembled either at the point where the exception >>> is going to be thrown or inside specific exceptions[2] (or a combination >>> of both). >> >> It often doesn't work. Sentences constructions are completely different >> in different languages, and it is impossible to simply buid up from >> elementary components that are individually translated and assembled >> later. See all the documentation about the ancient gettext for example. > > > Modern printf implementations deal with this by numbered arguments. This > is not a problem any more.
Which means you have a complete message with a sentence that simply has placeholders for variables parts. What I understand about Gilles proposal is to go further in the way of small blocks like COLUMN_INDEX, CONSTRAINT, EVALUATION, INDEX, NORM, and build up from there. Is it what was initially meant? Luc > > See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html#syntax > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
