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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 11:03:47 +0200
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On 23.04.14 21:48, Shark8 wrote:
> On 23-Apr-14 06:55, björn lundin wrote:
>>
>> I'd like V'Img to be standard ada like T'Image(V);
>> As in the gnat implementation
>
> I'd rather get a V'Type attribute; it would effectively solve your
> problem here as V'Img would be equivalent to:
>      V'Type'Image( V )
>
> This would also give us a bit more functionality rather than simply
> elevating a common case into the standard..

The real motivation for 'Img is debugging.

But few Ada programmers know how to operate a good,
programmable debugger.

Fix that.