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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:31:39 +0600, Ivan Levashew wrote:

> Just one problem: how should we output Integers? Every mean is broken.
> Integer'Image issues a stupid space before positive integers. 
> Ada.Integer_IO also outputs stupid spaces. It took me not that long to 
> provide Integer'Image wrapper, but I don't want this ugly face of Ada to 
> show on every sample that is about to output something.

I don't think 'Image output is ugly. What is indeed ugly is that it is not
a primitive operation of the corresponding type. T'Image is just
unacceptable for a language claiming to be an OOPL.

> It would be nice to have an agreement on what non-standard library to 
> consider common so that everybody can refer to it as if it was really 
> common. Image functions exist in PragmaRC, AdaCL, AWS.Utils, but every 
> of these functions can only deal with Naturals last time I checked them. 

Strings_Edit has a right Image function for Integer (and for Float too)

   http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/strings_edit.htm

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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