zby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Update: That was a typo (stuff <> staff).

I wanted to use quant in the key for the lexicon so that _AUTO would work for english so I wrote following:

package L10N; use base qw(Locale::Maketext); 1; package L10N::pl; use Locale::Maketext; use base qw(L10N); %Lexicon = ( "Foobar [quant,_1,staff]" => "Foobar [quant,_1,staf,stafow,zero st +afu]\n", "Foobar [_1]" => "Foobar [quant,_1,staf,stafow,zero stafu]\n", ); + 1; package Main; my $lh = L10N->get_handle('pl') || die "Language?"; print $lh->maketext("Foobar [_1]", 2); print $lh->maketext("Foobar [quant,_1,stuff]", 2); __OUTPUT__ Foobar 2 stafow maketext doesn't know how to say: Foobar [quant,_1,stuff] as needed at a1.txt line 20
The first maketext shows that [_1] alone works. But when in the second one I use [quant,_1,stuff] it does not find it in the lexicon.

The L::M POD says:

While you can use arbitrary unique IDs for lexicon keys (like "_min_la +rger_max_error"), it is often useful for if an entry's key is itself +a valid value,
Am I missing something here?