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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: Re: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/21
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Date: 1996-11-21T00:00:00+00:00
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   rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin) writes:

   >Thank you for proving the point!  PL/I's

   >   put edit (d) (P'-999,999,999');

   >is a lot simpler.

In article <56u4vf$r65$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

  > NONONONO!  It's *SHORTER*, is all.
  > "Shorter" and "simpler" are very different things.

   Not even that.  It is shorter once in PL/I but embarrassingly
longer when you have lots of puts to do.  In Ada I typically declare a
Put routine for any numeric type, and then just write Put(D); (If D
was a meaningful variable name. ;-)   There are occasions where you
want to use more than one format with a particular type, but this
almost always occurs in totalling situations.  I prefer even for that
case to use two renamings, one as Put one as Put_Total, etc.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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