Re: Natural to String without space? (newbie question)

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
> 
> > function Image (N : in Natural) return String is
> >    N_Image : constant String := Natural'Image (N);
> > begin
> >    return N_Image (2 .. N_Image'Last);
> > end Image;
> 
> Call me obsessive, but I feel safer with
> 
>   function Image (N : in Natural) return String is
>      N_Image : constant String := Natural'Image (N);
>   begin
>      return N_Image (N'Image'First + 1 ..
>                      N_Image'Last           );
>   end Image;

OK: You're obsessive.

Actually, in the good old days (1984 or so) I used an Ada-83 compiler
that implemented 'Image with different 'First than 1, despite
ANSI/MIL-STD 1815A explicitly stating that it should be 1, so I tend to
use something more like the 2nd example than the first (except I would
use N_Image'First rather than N'Image'First).

-- 
Jeffrey Carter