[Remind-Fans] Overdue items (cont.) -> plural()

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Dec 11 20:34:54 EST 2014


On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:21:43 -0800
morel_rf at armory.com wrote:

> I'm not sure if plural(-1) behavior in that version is generally a
> bug or feature, and don't know if it's changed in the current version:

plural(-1) returns "s".  If you're expecting negative numbers, use
plural(abs(x))

I guess this could be considered a bug, but the function does behave
exactly as described in the man page:

        If one argument is supplied, returns "s" if num is not 1, and
        "" if num is 1.

Regards,

David.


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