Re: [icu-design] proposal: extend plural format syntax

[Mark D. ☕ <ma...@ma...>]

Good points, thanks.

Mark

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On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 15:44, Markus Scherer <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mark Davis ☕ <ma...@ma...> wrote:
>
>> I think we should document that you should not use the selection argument
>> other than with #, eg *{0, number,##,##.00}* , because it may change in
>> the future.
>
>
> Ok, but only if the offset is not 0. If the offset is 0, it's fine.
>
> There is reason to allow people to change the format of numbers (eg
>> thousands separator or not, fractions or not), but we don't need it in first
>> release.
>>
>> Independently, I think we need something in the class hierarchy or a
>> method that says: this Formatter is a selection type (choice, select,
>> plural, maybe more in the future.)
>>
>
> Yes, that would be good, so that we need not check for a fixed set of
> classes (RTTI).
>
> markus
>
>
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