Re: Ada.Locales pseudo-string types

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Monday, August 6, 2012 10:57:33 PM UTC-7, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> This works:
> 
> with Ada.Text_IO;
> with Ada.Unchecked_Conversion;
> 
> procedure Weird_Output is
>    type Weird is array (Positive range 1 .. 3) of Character range 'A' .. 'Z';
> 
>    subtype Weird_Image is String (1 .. 3);
> 
>    function Image is new Ada.Unchecked_Conversion (Source => Weird, Target => Weird_Image);
>
>    C : constant Weird := "ABC";
> begin -- Weird_Output 
>    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Item => Image (C) );
> end Weird_Output;

Blecch.  Using Unchecked_Conversion seems like a good solution--if it's buried in the implementation of a To_String function in the body of Ada.Locales as I proposed.  Making users use it is just icky.  

                            -- Adam