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,b6e97963d32ee242 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-27 09:17:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED38C0E.20903@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate References: <254c16a.0305210726.485125de@posting.google.com> <3eccdf77$1@epflnews.epfl.ch> <3ecdd296$1@epflnews.epfl.ch> <3ED056CB.8000200@attbi.com> <3ed33506.7272397@news.btclick.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:02:22 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1054051342 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 27 May 2003 12:02:22 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:02:22 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37845 Date: 2003-05-27T12:02:22-04:00 List-Id: John McCabe wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2003 11:13:08 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" > wrote: > >>To have X'Image instead of T'Image (X)? That is too good to become a >>reality. (:-)) > > You mean like the GNAT X'Img attribute? > > Best Regards > John McCabe Speaking of X'Img, which I find really handy for debugging (I try not to leave these in final code for portability reasons), I would love to have R'Img capability for debugging, where R is a record or tagged record. This would save me a great deal of time debugging. As it is now, I usually just choose a few R.members'Img that I am interested in, but this is tedious, and I might miss something else interesting there. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg