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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9544fb5ce0a6df8b X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.28.135 with SMTP id b7mr18634861pbh.8.1322370712922; Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:11:52 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni22735pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Overloading attributes Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:11:51 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <8ed87fee-166a-4be9-ae6c-4d0fbeb4788c@s6g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3JPKcIlxw1eaZ+KTMfEJKw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.60 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19186 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2011-11-27T06:11:51+01:00 List-Id: Le Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:13:17 +0100, Matt Borchers = a =C3=A9crit: > Why is it that one cannot overload the 'Image and 'Value attribute > similar to how we can overload 'Input, 'Output, 'Read, and 'Write? I Because these are Intrinsic entities. Also Shark8 gave you the answer and question is in return up to you: why= = not write a user (reusable) function or tagged type ? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: [Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univer= sity]