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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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"Martin" <martin@thedowies.com> wrote in message 
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>> > 5) The ability to override the 'Image function
>> > 6) An alternative to 'Image that doesn't have a leading space for 
>> > integers!
>>
>> For symmetry, I suppose we'd need 'Value as well. Some might say it's
>> less important, and if the only use of 'Image is in debugging, I might
>> agree; but I've come across a case (white-box functional testing) where
>> I needed both, Value so I could specify inputs and expected outputs, and
>> Image so I could report when the results were wrong.
>
> Sorry Simon, I don't understand why we would need another 'Value?...

I can't speak for Simon, but I would have guessed that his comment applied 
more to (5) than to (6): if you can override 'Image, you ought to be able to 
override 'Value as well. And if the language has additional predefined 
'Images, then there ought to be matching predefined 'Values as well.

                                           Randy.