Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: > Please don't put this in the language. The problem is harder than it > seems (there are European languages that pluralize differently on $X % > 10, IIRC; 0 is singular or plural depending on the language, etc etc).
-snip- > I know Perl is not "minimal", but sometimes I feel that it will end up > being "maximal"... and the more you put "in the core", the less > flexibility you get in the long term. This _does_ appear to be something more suitable for a Locale:: module. I just wonder if there are enough hooks in the core to allow for an appropriately brief syntax to be introduced in a module: can one roll one's own string "interpolations" as things stand? E.g., is there a way to add meaning to backslashed characters in a string that would normally lack meaning? Do we have the tools to build "$m tool\s"? -- Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang
