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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Record operations (Algebraic Data Types and printing)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 21:46:38 +0300
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On 18-10-05 21:11 , Henrik Härkönen wrote:
> On Friday, 5 October 2018 20:58:30 UTC+3, AdaMagica  wrote:
>> Do it yourself... There is no such default.
>
> Yes, I was coming to this conclusion quite quickly as well. Thought
> to ask, just in case. :)

I suppose most Ada programmers have at some time wished for an 'Image 
attribute for records. And arrays.

> ... As stated above, coming from
> Scala (and JVM) world, and having worked also with Python for years,
> Ada seems to be _quite_ a different world (to me at least).

Ada has essentially no means for run-time reflection, such as 
programmatic access to the type structure of the running program.

The ASIS library provides off-line (post-compilation) access to such 
information, and could be used to create source code for Image functions 
for the record types, which could then be added to a recompilation of 
the original program.

> I do have professional C background as well, but that's so low level
> stuff that I wouldn't expect anything fancy like that...

Regarding reflection it seems to me that C and Ada are equally null.

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