Re: number_base

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> And it's so easy to "roll own code" for the slight minority that needs it that it isn't worth putting into the standard.
> This is typically a "nice to have" feature. We had hundreds of "nice to have" features for Ada95 that didn't make it into the
> standard, simply because one-week-work * hundreds-of-features would have meant that we wouldn't have Ada95 compilers yet.

You are right, of course.
And you may have seen my priority setting to "low".

OTOH, one should not underestimate(neglect) the promoting effect of a
potential
"oh cool, with Ada this is done so easy"

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