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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Address and bit mask
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:56:38 +0200
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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).

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de