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From: Corey Ashford <yeroca@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Re: printf package/Function/Procedure in Ada ??
Date: 1999/03/10
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Tom Moran wrote:
> 
> Isn't
>   Put("I=" & integer'image(i) & name);
> simpler than
>   printf("I=%i%s", i, name);

Except that printf allows you to more easily get fancy with formatting of
the variables, e.g. %08x, or %7.3f.  You can do this kind of thing with
text_io, but it's a lot more keystrokes.

In general, I think formatted I/O is a little more difficult in Ada, but Ada provides
many things that C can't do easily or at all (e.g. string slices, 'image for enumerated
types).

- Corey