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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 19:50:21 +0000 (UTC)
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Jeffrey R. Carter expounded in news:hrv32p$nnu$1@tornado.tornevall.net:

> Warren wrote:
>> 
>>  type LNumber_Type is range 0..99_999;
>> 
>> Can I declare..
>> 
>>  for LNumber_Type'Image use LNumber_To_String;
> 
> No. Nor can I see why you'd want to. Once you declare
> 
> function Image (Value : Lnumber_Type) return String;
> 
> why would you want to write
> 
> Lnumber_Type'Image (I)
> 
> rather than
> 
> Image (I)
> 
> ?

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));

But everyone has convinced me that it is not a good
practice, even if it were allowed. :)

Warren