I was browsing some of the Pharo issues (always worth doing) - and noticed an
interesting one about Test results reporting and pluralisation
(https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2578)
In it, I hadn't noticed String>>asPluralBasedOn: before (and judging from many
messages in the image, many others hadn't either).
I'm fixing something similar for a refactoring bug and can use this technique
there (although from memory, it comes with a health warning as if ever we want
to internalise the messages in Pharo, this will need a different approach).
However we are probably a distance from doing that - so cleaning up what we
have is a good start.
Anyway I was curious if there is something to help with messages like:
‘There is 1 occurrence of {1}’ vs ‘There are many occurrences of {1}’, which
I’d like to write something like:
‘There ‘, (‘is 1 ’, ‘are many ’) pick: result size, ‘occurrence’
asPluralBasedOn: result size, ‘ ‘, result printString.
Tim
