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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Hexadecimal and stream element arrays
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:52:42 +0200
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.x10hosting.com> writes:

> On Apr 19, 9:24 am, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>>
>> If you want to avoid the 16## part, you can easily convert the
>> stream_elements to a string representation yourself like so:
>>
>> function To_Hex (E : in Ada.Streams.Stream_Element) return String is
>
> This seems unnecessarily complex to me. Using the standard library to
> put an element to a String in base 16, then stripping the "16#" from
> the front and '#' from the end seems simpler, clearer, and less error
> prone.

I find it funny you should say that because I thought exactly the
opposite: letting Ada.Text_IO (which is notoriously slow) do the
conversion to string and then doing string manipulation is less clear
and more error-prone, IMHO (a proper implementation would use a simple,
but full-fledged, finite state machine).  But your approach is certainly
valid and correct nevertheless.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.