definePlural macro about js-lingui HOT 4 CLOSED

Kinda hacky, but should work:

const count = 0;
const myPluralMessageDescriptor = msg`${plural(count, { one: "Delete # book", other: "Delete # books"})}`

const App = () => {
  const { _ } = useLingui();
  return _({ ...myPluralMessageDescriptor, values: { count: 1 } })
}

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Thank you very much for your fast reply, yes, that actually works. Thanks for telling me.

Does this mean that under the hood when extracting the translations via macros the plural function gets replaced first and then the msg can use this? Or how does this work?

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The macro's code encounters msg expression and start expanding it recursively. It works the same way how t macro works.

const translation = t`Are you sure you want to delete ${plural(count, { one: "# book", other: "# books"})}`

The only difference between t and msg is the latest is not wrapped in i18n.t call, and left descriptor as is:

// t
i18n.t({id: "", message: "...."})

// msg / defineMessage
{id: "", message: "...."}

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Thank your very much for your help and detailed explanation, makes sense. I think we can close this then from my side, there is no separate macro needed.

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