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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
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Subject: Re: Internationalization [was Re: Printing plural forms.]
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Date: 28 Feb 91 04:04:59 GMT
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In article  <1991Feb27.161925.8675@linus.mitre.org> John D. Burger writes:
]
]Acting as a Lisp gadfly, my response would be "Too bad you don't
]program in a language with a real object system, in which the solution
]would be to have dates, currency amounts and so forth each know how to
]form their own printed representation.

What does this have to do with having a "real object system"?  You can
write different printing routines for different data types in almost
any language.
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					David Gudeman
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