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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:57:08 +0000 (UTC)
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Georg Bauhaus expounded in
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> On 10.05.10 18:18, Warren wrote:
>> Georg Bauhaus expounded in news:4be3d4fb$0$7651$9b4e6d93
>> @newsspool1.arcor-online.net:
>> 
>> ..
>>> [1. mislead assumptions].
>>> If, as Bob has said, programmers discover 'Image before
>>> they discover Text_IO.*_IO and Text_IO.Editing, then there
>>> is something wrong, indeed---with Ada's appearance before
>>> them!  
>> 
>> I know all about the instantiated Text_IO stuff. The
>> prevailing thing here is that I use S'Image for debugging
>> a lot (saves me from also having to track down instantiated
>> packages when I want to remove it). Then there's the
>> lazy part of me, that wanted to capitalize on what was
>> already there.
> 
> (I have "with Debugging;" in many context clauses.)
> 
>> Shoot me for those reasons. I've forgotten some Ada,
>> but I'm not a newb either.
> 
> APQ is not forgotten ...  The point is that, like J.-P. Rosen
> said, and like you said, 'Image is for debugging.

Yep. Up until this point, I've used To_String() functions,
but I do like the suggested "Image" for the function name.

Thanks for the lively discussion,
Warren