From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7e29322ee367c19d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Re: Unchecked_Conversion on different sized types -- problem? Date: 2000/01/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572604213 References: <387E574A.146BD794@home.com> <387E712A.F644BDAC@home.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 947865657 206.169.137.33 (Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:00:57 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:00:57 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Bryce Bardin wrote in message <387E712A.F644BDAC@home.com>... >... >The purpose of the "extra" layer is to improve efficiency >(by avoiding the cost of repeated format conversion). Note also >that your solution needs better format control to actually >work, because you don't want to send the leading blanks to the >ANSI terminal: > > Put(..., Width => 0); That's a very good point -- since I'm really only after a T-to-string representation, there's no reason to have an intermediate integer in this case. Forest for the trees... Mike