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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
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Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 06:15:11 -0400
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Thu, 06 May 2010 16:22:03 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I agree that it is indeed clumsier. It's just that
>>> I tend to use it a lot in debug output, rather than
>>> chasing down the package prefix for the To_String()
>>> function. I know I can always get away with:
>>>
>>> Put_Line("The value V=" & T'Image(V));
>> 
>> I don't understand that.  You need to chase down the package
>> in which T is declared, which is the same package in which
>> To_String (or better, Image) is declared.
>
> I always declare I/O/formatting stuff in a child package. 

Me, to. And the childe package is named Images.

> So, T'Image has some minor advantages. (The argument would really work
> if it were V'Image or V.Image)

It's Foo.Bar.T'Image vs Foo.Bar.Images.Image. No problem.

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