Maybe you can use the conditional syntax of expandMacros. On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 18:08 Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
> 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 > > >
