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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:22:25 +0200
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:48:13 +0000 (UTC), Luke A. Guest wrote:

> Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2014-03-30, Luke A  Guest <laguest@archeia.com> wrote:
>>> <francois_fabien@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> One wish to ease Input/output :
>>>> To have some equivalent of C primitive : printf("%c %c %c %c %c \n %c %c %c %c %c \n",
>>> 
>>> God no. This requires parsing the string in every call, the Ada does it no
>>> is superior. Plus it requires parameter passing from the right rather than
>>> the left.
>> 
>> The Ada way is ok for simple I/O.
>> 
>> What about when you want to produce a formatted report ?
> 
> Then you use the sub program conversions with field widths, ideally 'image
> should take field width and padding information as optional parameters.

What for? Image produces a string, formatted output is done into a string.
It makes little sense first to generate a string and then put it into
another one. The could be done in just one step, e.g.

http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm#Float_Edit
 
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