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On 30.08.11 21:56, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:31:55 -0700 (PDT), Adam Beneschan wrote:
>
>> I actually think Ada has a bit of a weakness in this regard.  The
>> ability to output and/or create strings that have data interpolated in
>> them is useful, but doing so with Ada is somewhat clunky.  Ada does
>> provide a string concatenation function, which C doesn't have, and
>> that could help, except that (1) there's no *function* defined in Ada
>> that returns the image of an integer in a given base (and if there
>> were, I'd want it to have options to control whether the 16#...# were
>> present or not, whether letters were in upper or lower case, and
>> whether and how far we add leading zeroes), and (2) the 'Image
>> attribute function on integer types has the annoying problem of the
>> extra space at the front of nonnegative integers.  With those fixed,
>> it would eliminate an objection I'm sure other C programmers trying to
>> use Ada have run into.
>
> The most annoying is that you have to specify the [sub]type T'Image(X). It
> should have been X'Image or Image(X).

In which way would you change T'Value for symmetry?