[OT] Number theory [Was: A use for integer quotients]

[Martin Sjögren]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 05:55:59AM +0000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> Sun, 29 Jul 2001 22:20:09 GMT, Bengt Richter <bokr at accessone.com> pisze:
> 
> > BTW, note the usefulness of boolean-as-integer returned from
> > comparison operators, if you want to be picky about plurals:
> > 
> >     print "There %s %d error%s." % ( ['were','was'][n==1], n, 's'*(n!=1) ) 
> 
> I would write it
>       print "There %s %d error%s." % (if n==1 then ('was',  n, '')
>                                               else ('were', n, 's'))
> if I could.

I would write it
    if n == 1:
        print "There was one error."
    else:
        print "There were %d errors." % n
If you've ever tried to translate programs to other languages, using
gettext for example, you quickly realize that all other constructs are
abominations and impossible to translate to other languages.

Okay, that was off topic :)

Martin

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