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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx01.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Shark8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0a1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Your wish list for Ada 202X References: <7f1c01c5-3563-4b94-9831-152dbbf2ecdc@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@teranews.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:48:36 UTC Organization: TeraNews.com Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:48:36 -0600 X-Received-Bytes: 1202 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3651240406 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19542 Date: 2014-04-23T13:48:36-06:00 List-Id: On 23-Apr-14 06:55, björn lundin wrote: > > I'd like V'Img to be standard ada like T'Image(V); > As in the gnat implementation I'd rather get a V'Type attribute; it would effectively solve your problem here as V'Img would be equivalent to: V'Type'Image( V ) This would also give us a bit more functionality rather than simply elevating a common case into the standard..