From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e91bd3f3ee80c47 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: reverse Integer'image(someString); Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 06:40:28 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <426cb55e$0$30475$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1114429297 96278 212.85.156.195 (25 Apr 2005 11:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:41:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10681 Date: 2005-04-25T06:40:28-05:00 Jeff C" wrote in message news:KIednSCHV-GzTfHfRVn-qw@comcast.com... > Adrien Plisson wrote: snip > What does work fine are: > > a) > > Text_IO.Put_Line(Integer'Image(Some_Integer)); > > b) > > declare > Some_String : constant String := Integer'Image(Some_Integer); > begin > ...play with Some_String > end; The "constant" in the declaration of Some_String is not only unnecessary, but would prevent some types of "playing" with Some_String.