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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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Martin <martin@thedowies.com> writes:

> 4) 'Image for records/arrays
>
> Or some means of iterating through each component, obtaining its name
> and values, such that I could write my own function quickly.
>
> 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.