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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: The old "Object.Method" syntax debate
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 10:24:05 +0200
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John McCabe wrote:

> On Sun, 25 May 2003 11:13:08 +0200, "Dmitry A. Kazakov"
> <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> 
>>To have X'Image instead of T'Image (X)? That is too good to become a
>>reality. (:-))
> 
> You mean like the GNAT X'Img attribute?

Overridable attributes would make any explicit type specification 
superfluous in presence of an object.

[Even in Ada 83 T'Image (X) looked strange. Any possible ambiguity could be 
easily solved with a qualified expression: T'(X)'Image.]

However, overriding attributes raises an interestring question of making 
everything that could appear on the left side of an attribute a first-class 
object. To bring it to extreme what about:

   I := (array (Integer range 1..Size) of Something)'Length;  -- (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
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