On Tuesday 26 May 2009 16:47:44 Tom Lane wrote:
> The method breaks the instant you have any additional
> values to print. For example, this ain't gonna work:
>
> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %lu bytes",
> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
> n, total_bytes);
Don't do that then. This only shows that you cannot implement everything this
way. It does not show why the things that you can implement are wrong.
> I'm of the opinion that the test being performed by msgfmt -v is
> entirely reasonable, and we should not risk such problems for the sake
> of sometimes spelling out "one".
I have no objections to this. I am only pointing out how we arrived at the
current state.
