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Subject: Re: new revision ada (exception handling)
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"Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
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> In this respect I allways missed the
>
> for My_Type'Image use ...;
>
> feature.

We considered it briefly, but there are a number of problems with such a
feature. (One example is that Text_IO.Enumeration_IO depends on 'Image. How
will it know what syntax to read for a user-defined image.) Anyway, we
dropped the idea. (You should be able to find that discussion in the meeting
minutes, although I can't tell you in which meeting we discussed it.)

              Randy Brukardt
              ARG Editor