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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How do i print stuff?
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:30:56 +0300
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On 17-10-28 21:07 , tclwarrior@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first day learning Ada

Heartily welcome!

   ...
>    if c then
>       Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("true");
>    else
>       Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line("false");
>    End if;
    ...
> But, I failed miserable to simply Print a, b and c
> well, I kind of succeeded in printing a and b using
> Float_Text_IO.Put

What do you mean "kind of" ? Text_IO is the "print" in Ada.

> But could not find a way to Print c (a boolean)

Boolean is an enumeration type, so the canonical way would be to create 
an instance of the package Ada.Text_IO.Enumeration_IO for the Boolean 
type, and use that. The instance will provide both input and output.

If all you need is to print a Boolean value, you can use the attribute 
function Boolean'Image to convert a Boolean value to a string. Here

    Boolean'Image (True) = "TRUE"
    Boolean'Image (False) = "FALSE"

so you can do

    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Boolean'Image (c));

and get TRUE or FALSE printed.

> Well, so my question, that is the strategy to print stuff in Ada
> does have have a print statement that can print any type

No, there is no such print statement.

> does each type have his one print statement

In principle, yes; there are a set of generic packages that you can 
instantiate to provide I/O for your types.

> How do I cast floats and booleans to strings?

Most scalar types have a 'Image attribute.

The inverse attribute is 'Value, which converts a string into a value. 
For example, Boolean'Value ("TRUE") = True.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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