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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Imagine Ada with Fewer Attributes
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:27:01 +0000
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On Sat, 15 May 2010, Frank J. Lhota sent:

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|[..] For example, rather than having an 'Image, 'Value, 'Succ, etc.         |
|attribute for the scalar types, why not simply have Image, Value, Succ, etc.|
|functions for the scalar types, that the user can override?                 |
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Functions are not needed for this. VHDL (a family of dialects of Ada
83) has user-defined attributes.