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

lib/i18n/intl.dart

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+/**
+ * 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.
+   */
+   DateFormat get date() => new DateFormat.date();

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/05 22:34:17]

I'm sorry to keep bugging you about this indentation thing -- it is improving! I
think this guy should indented one less space, right? same with lines 33-35 and
40 (and the other lines involved with the function at 40)?

Just FYI, in the event you're not using the Dart editor, there are syntax files
in tools/utils for emacs, vim, textmate (and if you ask around, some of people
around here use sublime and must have something that works for that). These guys
will help enforce the proper indentation and give nice Dart syntax highlighting.

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/06 22:05:58]

If only the emacs mode actually worked... 

Done.

+   DateFormat get time() => new DateFormat.time();
+   DateFormat get dateTime() => new DateFormat.dateTime();
+   MessageFormat 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'];
+      } else {
+         return '';
+      }
+   }
+
+   String select(String choice, Map actions) {
+      for (var key in actions.getKeys()) {
+         if (choice == key) return actions[key];
+      }
+      return '';
+   }
+
+}