[Gambas-user] Example to IIF: what is meant here

[nando]

Is this translatable ?

X = 7
PRINT "You have " & X & If(X <> 1, "messages", "message") & " waiting." 


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From: Caveat <Gambas at ...1950...>
To: gambas-user at lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:57:15 +0200
Subject: Re: [Gambas-user] Example to IIF: what is meant here

> As I read it, it means it would be difficult to make a multi-language 
> version of that message.  It's too broken up and makes a specific 
> English grammatical choice (whether to add 's' for plural).
> 
> Someone who wanted to translate this program to work in another 
> country's language would struggle with messages like this.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Caveat
> 
> On 10/10/12 11:46, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Who has made the examples for IIF? Maybe you can explain what you meant
> > by "not translatable":
> >
> > ' Never do the following in real code, because it is not translatable!
> > X = 7
> > PRINT "You have " & X & " message" & If(X <> 1, "s", "") & " waiting."
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Rolf
> >
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