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From: john@ethel.mitre.org (Ralph Marshall 617 271-8784)
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Subject: Re: Internationalization [was Re: Printing plural forms.]
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Date: 28 Feb 91 17:18:36 GMT
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gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:
> [I wrote]
>>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.

Maybe I don't understand you, but how do you do this in C?
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John Burger                                               john@mitre.org

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