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From: Bryce Bardin <bbardin@home.com>
Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem?
Date: 2000/01/14
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Mike Silva wrote:
> 
> Mike Silva wrote in message ...
> 
> Disregard the nonsense I just wrote -- I guess I wasn't paying close
> attention to what I was responding to.  My *new* response is that such a
> translation array just seems like an extra layer, but maybe it is a better
> solution than UC.
> 
> Mike
> 
> >This seems "busy", but my biggest objection would be having to enter the
> >same data twice (and keeping both sets consistent) -- isn't that always a
> >rich source of errors?
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> >

The purpose of the "extra" layer is to improve efficiency
(by avoiding the cost of repeated format conversion).  Note also
that your solution needs better format control to actually
work, because you don't want to send the leading blanks to the
ANSI terminal:

  Put(..., Width => 0);