From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: The simple Image issue
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:44:23 +0200
Date: 2011-08-31T16:44:23+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12nar9pjxb1pg.14709ohrczh9p$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4e5dd1c1$0$6638$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:16:35 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 30.08.11 21:56, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:31:55 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan wrote:
>>
>>> I actually think Ada has a bit of a weakness in this regard. The
>>> ability to output and/or create strings that have data interpolated in
>>> them is useful, but doing so with Ada is somewhat clunky. Ada does
>>> provide a string concatenation function, which C doesn't have, and
>>> that could help, except that (1) there's no *function* defined in Ada
>>> that returns the image of an integer in a given base (and if there
>>> were, I'd want it to have options to control whether the 16#...# were
>>> present or not, whether letters were in upper or lower case, and
>>> whether and how far we add leading zeroes), and (2) the 'Image
>>> attribute function on integer types has the annoying problem of the
>>> extra space at the front of nonnegative integers. With those fixed,
>>> it would eliminate an objection I'm sure other C programmers trying to
>>> use Ada have run into.
>>
>> The most annoying is that you have to specify the [sub]type T'Image(X). It
>> should have been X'Image or Image(X).
>
> In which way would you change T'Value for symmetry?
"123"'Value or Value("123"), of course
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2011-08-29 15:46 Address and bit mask milouz
2011-08-29 16:06 ` Martin
2011-08-29 16:33 ` milouz
2011-08-29 17:47 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-29 17:54 ` Martin
2011-08-29 18:46 ` tmoran
2011-08-29 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-29 19:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-30 9:14 ` milouz
2011-08-30 10:34 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-30 10:58 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-30 12:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 14:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-30 16:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 16:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-30 14:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-30 10:40 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-30 10:44 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-30 15:20 ` tmoran
2011-08-30 16:08 ` milouz
2011-08-30 16:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 19:31 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-30 19:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 6:16 ` The simple Image issue (was: Address and bit mask) Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 14:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2011-08-31 15:36 ` The simple Image issue Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 15:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 16:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 16:27 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 16:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 16:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 20:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 21:17 ` Robert A Duff
2011-09-01 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-01 7:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-01 9:50 ` Overloading parentheses and type expectations (was: The simple Image issue) Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-02 7:54 ` Overloading parentheses and type expectations Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-02 10:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-02 12:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-09-02 16:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-02 17:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 15:53 ` The simple Image issue Hyman Rosen
2011-08-31 16:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 16:08 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-31 16:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 16:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 16:30 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-08-31 16:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-31 16:43 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-31 21:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-09-01 7:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-08-31 16:08 ` The simple Image issue (was: Address and bit mask) Adam Beneschan
2011-08-31 16:53 ` The simple Image issue Simon Wright
2011-08-31 17:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2011-08-31 20:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 19:37 ` Address and bit mask Martin
2011-08-30 16:32 ` Simon Wright
2011-08-31 7:55 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-08-30 12:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 13:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-08-30 15:14 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-30 15:59 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-08-31 7:45 ` milouz
2011-08-31 8:35 ` Ludovic Brenta
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