Re: parenthesis necessary for Plural-Forms

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Viktor Horvath wrote:
> I'm using gettext 0.17 to internationalise a Perl project. I found  
> that plural forms would only work when I set the plurals= expression  
> into parentheses. Specifically,
> 
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=n==0 ? 0 : (n==1 ? 1 : 2);n"
> 
> would not work as expected, but
> 
> "Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; plural=(n==0 ? 0 : (n==1 ? 1 : 2));n"
> 
> did the job.

You certainly mean '\n' at the end of the string, not plain 'n'.

Other than that, this need for parentheses would be a bug. gettext for C
certainly does not require the outer parentheses. Maybe the pure-perl
implementation in libintl-perl-1.16/lib/Locale/gettext_pp.pm requires them?
Maybe Guido Flohr can say something about it?

Bruno