Last modified: 2012-04-16 09:16:01 UTC
The {{plural:}} magic word will expand some expressions, but not others. This is a little confusing, especially as the advertised use of expressions (x mod 10, for Russian-like languages) isn't supported by default. Examples: {{plural:0|is|are}} → are (OK) {{plural:1*1|is|are}} → is (OK) {{plural:21 mod 10|is|are}} → are (UNEXPECTED) {{plural:{{#expr:21 mod 10}}|is|are}} → is (OK) {{plural:1|is|are}} → is (OK) {{plural:2|is|are}} → are (OK)
Is plural supposed to expand any expressions at all. I thought it was supposed to work {{plural:<some number>|foo|bar}} and if the number needs to be modded 10 in the content laguage, the software will do it. For example in russian (This is my understanding. could be wrong) {{plural:1|foo|bar|baz}} = {{plural:21|foo|bar|baz}} = foo {{plural:2|foo|bar|baz}} = {{plural:3|foo|bar|baz}} = bar {{plural:0|foo|bar|baz}} = {{plural:5|foo|bar|baz}} = baz (I'll leave this open in case i totally misunderstood how plural works and just made a fool of myself)
I think to really answer this, we'd have to have someone test the output of {{plural:1*2|is|are}} and {{plural:2*1|is|are}} Otherwise, it just looks to me like 1*1 in Martin's original post is not being expanded at all.
