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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
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 expounded in news:Pine.LNX.4.64.1005071004460.24406@medsec1.medien.uni-
weimar.de:

> On Thu, 6 May 2010, Warren wrote:
> 
>> I'm just being a typical lazy programmer (not always 
>> wanting to lookup the correct package prefix for
>> the To_String() function to use).
> 

> How about overloading the &-operator:
> 
>   function "&"(S: String; Item: T) return String;
> 
> if X is of type T and you "use type T", you can replace the expression 
> 
>   T'Image(X)
> 
> by 
> 
>    "" & X
> 
> If your T'Image(X) is part of a larger string expression, overloading & 
> appears to be very convenient (for the "typical lazy programmer", as 
> you put it):
> 
>   Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("The first result is " & X & 
>                        " the second result is " & Y & ".");
> 
> So long
> 
> Stefan

That's not a bad idea- thanks.

Warren