Re: printf package/Function/Procedure in Ada ??

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <7c4e75$e5m@drn.newsguy.com>,
  solo <solo@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Any one knows where one can obtain a printf package/Function written all
> in Ada?
> (i.e. without Ada interfacing to the C printf() function to do its thing).
>
> This will be a package that will have a printf procedure that
> exactly matches that of the C printf specs.

printf() takes an indeterminate amount of arguments. You can't do that in Ada.
However you can simulate it with a single argument that is an unconstrained
array.

Using that trick, along with some of the tricks and the facilities in gnat's
Spitbol.* packages, I think it'd be doable. Probably not worth the effort, but
doable.

For those of you who haven't taken a look at it, I highly reccomend playing
with the gnat Spitbol packages. There are some rather nifty coding tricks in
there that I had never thought of before. I'm certainly the richer for having
figgured out how to use it.

T.E.D.

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