Support for 'generic' counting systems and 'special' counting systems

[chrzyki]

Allow languages to have a generic counting system and a special counting system, e.g. for counting coconuts.

[SimonGreenhill]

Can we handle this with a naming scheme e.g. "Language" is the generic counting system, "Language (X)" is the counting system for X's?

[xrotwang]

@SimonGreenhill but this could also be handled via a scheme for the parameters: "1" vs "1 coconut". Having lexemes from the same language spread over two language-like things seems a bit counter-intuitive to me.

[chrzyki]

Hm, not particularly fond of touching the names. How about having an additional variable for each and every numeral with a default 'General' counting system and an option to set this to other systems?

[xrotwang]

@chrzyki but this would amount to multiple parameters for the numeral "1", right? And these parameters should be distinguished by name.

[chrzyki]

I'm not sure whether I understand. Can't we glue these information to the lexemes?

/edit: Reasoning: The numeral doesn't care for which counting system it is used (or am I getting this wrong?) but the lexemes designate different things (with the numerical information retrieved from the base numerals) for different counting purposes.

[xrotwang]

Hm. But the two lexemes for the numeral "1" are not really synonyms, but are used exclusively based on context (I think). So I'd rather glue the context to the numeral :)