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Subject: Re: Enum'Image (Was: Improving Ada's image)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@nbi.dk> wrote in message
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> Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> > Would the incompatibility be unnacceptable (to 200Y) simply to state
> > that the case of Enum'Image is exactly as in the declaration.
>
> I think it would.

Yes, definitely. The problem (ironically) would be all of those little
functions to convert the case of enumerations. Code like that is likely to
assume that the input is upper case, and if that changed, it would silently
break, outputing gibberish.

In any case, Text_IO.Enumeration_IO does let you set the case of the output.
(It could use a Mixed_Case option, though). Remember that 'image is for Q&D
output, not the fancy stuff (something we all forget often).

                   Randy.