Re: How to get this space away?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:37:41 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Ada could stop supporting 'Image entirely, and instead create
> 
>    Annex F.4, Edited Output for Integer Types
> 
> If 'Image was intended for debugging purposes, It is quite obvious
> that 'Image keeps being misused. But:
> 
>   I/O is what we are payed for.
>   I/O is the raison d'être of programming.
>
> So, please, stop helping programmers evade proper I/O.

There are two use cases actually. Output is one, conversion is another.
There must be always four operations:

   Get, Value, Put, Image

Note also that there is a second important player here, the container type.
When you compare 'Image with output you do apples and oranges.

The container for 'Image is String. The container for Put is File_Type.
They are not same. Granted 'Image returning a new file would be useless,
but still. Output into a String is a hell how useful.

BTW, the container for the 'Output attribute is a stream, and you would
need one for Stream_Element_Array as well.

As you see it is much more rich than you wrote.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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