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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: The simple Image issue
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:08:51 +0100
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> On 8/31/2011 2:16 AM, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> In which way would you change T'Value for symmetry?
>
> You wouldn't, because the symmetry is false. When you
> already have an object, being forced to name its type
> is silly and redundant. When you have a string and want
> it converted to an object, of course you need to say
> what type it's becoming.

I would have thought overload resolution would solve a lot of problems?

   X : Integer := "123"'Value;
   Y : Float := "1.0e-9"'Value;

(not that I approve of the suggestion, quite happy with the current
setup for 'Value. On the other hand, I'm a frequent user of GNAT's 'Img
- not of course in code that's intended to be portable!)