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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 23:20:06 +0200
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On Thu, 06 May 2010 22:56:51 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:

> Le Thu, 06 May 2010 22:19:15 +0200, Robert A Duff  
> <bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a �crit:
> 
>> The leading blank produced by T'Image is indeed annoying!
>> What were they thinking?!  Never mind, that's been discussed
>> to death.  It's not a huge problem, but it's one of the
>> first things new Ada programmers notice, and it's a real
>> turn-off.
>>
> I'm sometime lazy too, so I did not check the reference about it, however,  
> I can say today I used 'Image on a "mod type", and there was no heading  
> blank, while that's true I have one with with kinds of Integer or Natural.

Not always. Blank is actually '+'. Integer'Image (-1) is "-1", no blanks.
Integer'Image (1) is " 1".

(In almost unlikely case if you printed integers in columns and these
integers were of same length, you would get columns aligned! (:-))

> What there were thinking about ?

punched cards? (:-))

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