Isn't case I think in these two cases that using "one" is actively a
bad idea. These aren't English sentences they're fragments meant to
report numerical results to programmers. We don't use "two" or "three"
either.
If the value were just part of some full sentence where the actual
value wasn't the key piece of data such as some error messages the
situation might be different.
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Greg
On 26 May 2009, at 15:05, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> That advice is, if not outright wrong, at least incredibly
>> short-sighted. 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);
>
> I think it should use the %2$s style specifier in that case. This
> should work:
>
>> printf (ngettext ("One file removed, containing %2$lu bytes",
>> "%d files removed, containing %lu bytes", n),
>> n, total_bytes);
>
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