singular and plural

[Christian Ebert]

* Benoit Boissinot on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 00:40:35 +0200:
> On 4/12/06, Christian Ebert <blacktrash at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Something like
>> 
>> [...]
>> searching for changes
>> adding changesets
>> adding manifests
>> adding file changes
>> added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
>> 
>> always makes me feel like a chimpanzee in front of a cash
>> machine. As I can't bear the truth I wanted to ask whether it
>> would make sense to have something like
>> 
> When I did it for some output in update, I was told it is bad for
> scripts that want to parse the output.

Playing advocate of the devil I could argue that with the same
probability that scripts actually exist that would break it would
not be too difficult for the scripters who cooked them up to
tweak them accordingly.

> Furthermore it is probably not worth the complexity.

OTOH there is the empty i18n.py waiting to be filled, and once it
/is/ filled this will be much more complex and all scripts that
do rely on English output will be broken.

Mind you I am half joking and this won't keep me from using
mercurial. Still, as someone who is not a professional programer
I wonder why sometimes you have an elaborately structured program
that interacts with you like you were an inarticulate dummy --
after all python is a /language/ and not a collection of
pictograms ;-)

c

P.S. Now playing: Marianne Faithfull, Broken English
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