From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,587e0e0a16d65b10 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.germany.com!news.ecp.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia! Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:13:14 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <3286og.hl4.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1235652488 12746 195.25.228.57 (26 Feb 2009 12:48:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:48:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3817 Date: 2009-02-26T15:13:14+01:00 List-Id: Ivan Levashew a �crit : [...] > Integer_Text_IO.Put (8, Width => 0); > [...] > But, once again, it looks stupid. The output is the same, and it looks less stupid if you write: Integer_Text_IO.Put (8, Width => 1); > Integer'Image (-2) = "-2" -- no space here no matter how useful it is > The whole idea of text_io was to make well aligned columns, which is sensible for files (as opposed to user messages on the terminal). The damn space was simply felt more elegant than a '+' in front of positive numbers. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr