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From: Luke A. Guest <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:48:13 +0000 (UTC)
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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.

I see no problem.

Luke