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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: new revision ada (exception handling)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:40:59 +0200
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Pascal Obry wrote:

> 
> "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> writes:
> 
>> I think a possible answer to this question is that XML is human-readable
>> (or at least it is pure text), whereas Ada streams are (essentially)
>> binary. I think the point of providing (only) string data for
>> parametising exceptions in Ada 95 was to ensure that those parameters
>> could simply be printed/displayed (by diagnostic software). XML encoded
>> parameters could also be simply printed out, as well as being interpreted
>> and used by knowledgeable software.
> 
> There is mixed issues here. The stream does not need to be human readable
> as the information is passed between partition, this is really a computer
> issue and the most compact representation is better. Now to display the
> exception information I agree that we need to kind of human
> representation.

In this respect I allways missed the

for My_Type'Image use ...;

feature.

We can say:

for My_Type'Output use ...;

so why not?

With Regards

Martin
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