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From: "Henrik Härkönen" <heharkon@gmail.com>
Subject: Record operations (Algebraic Data Types and printing)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 10:46:30 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2018-10-05T10:46:30-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f5608ef-0038-491c-b15f-f67bcc76fae8@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi! (Very) Slowly getting my Ada wheels rolling, didn't get the book yet etc. but anyway...

I'm coming from Scala world most recently and I like to leverage Algebraic Data Types (through sealed traits), or Discriminated Unions, as they were called in F#. I was happy to find out that Ada has Variant Record, which I believe pretty much covers the same thing. Maybe in a bit more verbose way. :) I'm somehow fascinated by the possibility to carry state as the type, thus with different data items for each state.

Now as I'm playing with the records, I'd like to print them out, just for "debugging" purposes. Is there any convenient way to splash them out in console? Some sort of default string representation? Seems that 'Image attribute works only for scalar types.

-Henrik

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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-05 17:46 Henrik Härkönen [this message]
2018-10-05 17:58 ` Record operations (Algebraic Data Types and printing) AdaMagica
2018-10-05 18:11   ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-05 18:46     ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-05 20:33       ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-06  5:38   ` J-P. Rosen
2018-10-06  7:08     ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-06 16:42       ` Lucretia
2018-10-08 23:08         ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-09  1:12           ` Lucretia
2018-10-09 22:20             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-10  7:17               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-10 18:13                 ` G. B.
2018-10-10 18:36                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-11 11:29                   ` Björn Lundin
2018-10-11 14:45                     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-10-11 18:34                       ` Björn Lundin
2018-10-12 19:08                     ` G. B.
2018-10-12 19:20                       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-11 21:32                   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-10 18:38                 ` Shark8
2018-10-11  8:36                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-11 21:35                 ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-12  7:14                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-12 19:16                     ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-06 16:18     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-10-06 17:19       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-10-08 23:03   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-09  6:22     ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-09  7:32       ` Paul Rubin
2018-10-09  7:38         ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-09 22:25         ` Randy Brukardt
2018-10-05 18:32 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-10-05 18:43   ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-05 19:41   ` Simon Wright
2018-10-06  6:17     ` Henrik Härkönen
2018-10-06 16:04       ` Stephen Leake
2018-10-06 16:56         ` Simon Wright
2018-10-08  6:44           ` briot.emmanuel
2018-10-08 14:09             ` Simon Wright
2018-10-08 14:21               ` Bill Findlay
2018-10-08 14:42                 ` Simon Wright
2018-10-08 16:46                   ` Bill Findlay
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