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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:25:29 +0200
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On Thu, 06 May 2010 16:22:03 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:

> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I agree that it is indeed clumsier. It's just that
>> I tend to use it a lot in debug output, rather than
>> chasing down the package prefix for the To_String()
>> function. I know I can always get away with:
>>
>> Put_Line("The value V=" & T'Image(V));
> 
> I don't understand that.  You need to chase down the package
> in which T is declared, which is the same package in which
> To_String (or better, Image) is declared.

I always declare I/O/formatting stuff in a child package. So, T'Image has
some minor advantages. (The argument would really work if it were V'Image
or V.Image)

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