Re: ADA and return functions (Strings)

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1021804803.32634.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...

> The best way to do this without spaces is something like this:
> 
> return Ada.Strings.Fixed.Trim (Version.Major'img, Ada.Strings.Left) &
>  "." & Ada.Strings.Fixed.Trim (Version.Minor'img, Ada.Strings.Left);

Seems very heavy to drag in the whole of Ada.Strings.Fixed for such a trivial
task, and even heavier to call Trim repeatedly. Why not just write a little
function called Semsible_Image that you then call. Actually you can use the
name Image for this function.

P.S. This was clearly a bad design decision in Ada, it had in mind some kind
of columnar output thought, but that was silly in context. But we are stuck
now because people depend on the existing annoying definition.