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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 2:53:40 PM UTC-7, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> > An attribute that takes away a ' ' that shouldn't
> > have been there in the first place?  Yuck.
> > What were they thinking?
> >
> > At this point, the ONLY reason for that extra space
> > is compatibility.
>=20
>   'Image without the space still wouldn't be good for really nicely
> formatted output, and it would be very much less convenient for quick
> debug or logging outputs.

How would it be less convenient without the space?  A big problem is that '=
Image adds an extra space for nonnegative numbers but not for negative numb=
ers, so if you want debug or log output that doesn't look messy you either =
have to concatenate an extra space somewhere else and live with having two =
spaces in the output, or use Trim or something like that.  OK, I guess that=
 if you know your numbers aren't negative maybe it might be OK.  But I've f=
ound the extra space to be a nuisance, including for debugging and logging =
outputs.

                        -- Adam