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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: new revision ada (exception handling)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:57:52 +0200
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Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
> news:3596451.WJTNXepdF3@linux1.krischik.com...
>> In this respect I allways missed the
>>
>> for My_Type'Image use ...;
>>
>> feature.
> 
> We considered it briefly, but there are a number of problems with such a
> feature. (One example is that Text_IO.Enumeration_IO depends on 'Image.
> How will it know what syntax to read for a user-defined image.) Anyway, we
> dropped the idea.

At least for the first question I know the answer. It is the same as for
'Output:

for My_Type'Value use ...;

If you provide 'Output and want to read the data afterwards you have to
provide an 'Input which fits the bill.

So it would be the same for the 'Image / 'Value pair. 

> (You should be able to find that discussion in the
> meeting minutes, although I can't tell you in which meeting we discussed
> it.)

To difficult to find anything in there.

With Regards

Martin

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