Why not use the condition macro so you have a single string literal, that in the future could be used for translation?
E.g. | occurences | occurences := 3. 'There <1?is:are> <2p> <1?occurrence:ocurrences> of <3p>' expandMacrosWith: occurences = 1 with: 3 with: 'Foo' Esteban A. Maringolo El mié., 20 feb. 2019 a las 18:08, Tim Mackinnon (<tim@testit.works>) escribió: > 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 > > >
