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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada -vs- GNAT
Date: 9 Jun 2002 05:13:51 -0700
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"SteveD" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<x1tM8.144976$ux5.185878@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>...

> I agree with this for most of the gnat specific attributes.  But find the
> "img" attribute hard to justify.  Usually being terse is not a goal in Ada.

The 'Img attribute is intended solely for debugging purposes. It is poor
style to use it in any other context. One thing to realize about 'Img is
that it is only partially implemented according to its original spec, since
the intention is that it be usable for composite objects.