Updated message formatting to be more compatible with Dart string interpolation.

lib/i18n/intl.dart

+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
+ * for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
+ * BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+ *
+ */
+
+#library('Intl');
+#import('date_format.dart');
+#import('message_format.dart');
+
+class Intl {
+
+  /**
+   * As yet not clearly defined variable for holding onto our current locale,
+   * which may actually be a list of locales, or have different information
+   * for different aspects of internationalization (e.g. German locale but with
+   * Canadian date format)
+   * TODO(alanknight) Actually make this class do something with locales,
+   * just a skeleton right now.
+   */
+  var _locale;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructor
+   */
+  Intl([this._locale]);
+
+   /**
+    * Methods to return appropriate format objects.
+   **/

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/07 18:42:23]

remove extra astrisk.

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/07 21:19:39]

Done.

+   get date() => new DateFormat.fullDate();

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/07 18:42:23]

put return types for getters since this is an API. also, I thought we weren't
returning new objects from getters?

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/07 21:19:39]

Hmm, I'd made them non-getters. So that wasn't merged properly.
Done. And switched back to non-getters.

+   get time() => new DateFormat.fullTime();
+   get dateTime() => new DateFormat.fullDateTime();
+   get message() => new MessageFormat();
+
+   /**
+    * Support methods for message formatting.
+    */
+   String plural(num howMany, Map actions) {
+      var desiredKey = howMany.toString();
+      for (var key in actions.getKeys()) {
+        if(desiredKey == key) return actions[key];
+      }
+      if (actions.containsKey('other')) {
+         return actions['other'];

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/07 18:42:23]

remove extra space here and below.

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/07 21:19:39]

Done.

+      } else {
+         return '';
+      }
+  }
+
+   String select(String choice, Map actions) {
+     for (var key in actions.getKeys()) {
+       if (choice == key) return actions[key];
+     }
+     return '';
+   }
+
+}