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| author | Thomas Sibley <tsibley@cpan.org> | 2011-12-16 09:55:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-12-16 09:54:18 -0800 |
| commit | be5515fa903a6543e752aca5bc8d7da2b42617b6 (patch) | |
| tree | e84994defb12b75f6712b04cf45dd6fd3adcbd71 /dist/Locale-Maketext | |
| parent | 5669035a817397b7fb06505e3085a0a8084bdc20 (diff) | |
| download | perl-be5515fa903a6543e752aca5bc8d7da2b42617b6.tar.gz | |
Document Locale::Maketext's numerate method
Previously this was only implicitly documented by a passing reference to
it a subsequent section.
Diffstat (limited to 'dist/Locale-Maketext')
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod b/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod index 1d3fb2591a..3ef9c3a5a9 100644 --- a/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod +++ b/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod @@ -386,6 +386,14 @@ entirely. Note that numf is called by quant for stringifying all quantifying numbers. +=item $language->numerate($number, $singular, $plural, $negative) + +This returns the given noun form which is appropriate for the quantity +C<$number> according to this language's conventions. C<numerate> is +used internally by C<quant> to quantify nouns. Use it directly -- +usually from bracket notation -- to avoid C<quant>'s implicit call to +C<numf> and output of a numeric quantity. + =item $language->sprintf($format, @items) This is just a wrapper around Perl's normal C<sprintf> function. |