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');
+
+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
+   **/   

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/04 23:34:52]

get rid of extra astrisk here

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/05 00:16:46]

Done.

+   Intl([this._locale]);
+
+   /**
+    * Methods to return appropriate format objects.
+   */

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/04 23:34:52]

indent one more space here.

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/05 00:16:46]

Done.

+   get date() => new DateFormat.date();
+   get time() => new DateFormat.time();
+   get dateTime() => new DateFormat.dateTime();
+   get message() => new MessageFormat();
+
+   /**
+    * Support methods for message formatting.
+   */
+   String plural(num howMany, Map actions) {

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/04 23:34:52]

one more space here

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/05 00:16:46]

Done.

+      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 "";};

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/04 23:34:52]

nit: up above you use the single quotes for strings and here you use double. Can
we make them the same throughout unless there's a compelling reason otherwise?
(personally I prefer single quotes in general)

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/05 00:16:46]

Done.

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

[Emily Fortuna, 2012/06/04 23:34:52]

same here

[Alan Knight, 2012/06/05 00:16:46]

Done.

+      }
+   }
+
+}