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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: 'Image for composite types
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 05:15:10 +0000 (UTC)
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> Is it just me that gets fed up with the lack of 'Image on composite
> types?
  Could you use the S'Output stream mechanism?  Declare your new
Ada.Streams.Root_Stream_Type with a Write that writes as a text string to
a log file, and your own elementary Integer'Write, Boolean'Write etc and
let the stream mechanism generate a concatenation of components for
composite types.  Of course you would have to add a mechanism for line
breaks or the output would be a continuous string of numbers, enumeration
literals, and so forth, but you would need that also if there was a
language defined 'Image.