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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,228dbf2f126edf08 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-21 04:11:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA and return functions (Strings) Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:50:11 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3CEA2663.E7DAFD42@brighton.ac.uk> References: <3ce75220@news.comindico.com.au> <5ee5b646.0205190630.237196b3@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: straumli.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1021978259 22615 193.62.183.204 (21 May 2002 10:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 May 2002 10:50:59 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24455 Date: 2002-05-21T10:50:59+00:00 List-Id: sk wrote: > > Hi, > > MDC : > > ... Integer'Spaceless_Image ... > > I was thinking of for more complex types, > timestamps for example. > > A "for Time'Image use My_Time_Image" might allow > for several possibilities : I seem to remember that user-defined attributes were in one of the earlier Ada 9X mapping docs, but they were dropped at some point in the revision process. Can anyone remember any of the details (like why the idea was dropped)? ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------