Re: for S'Image use Func??

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Fri, 07 May 2010 16:25:37 +0200, Robert A Duff  
<bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a écrit:
> And teaching beginners how to instantiate generics,
> when there's a simple 'Image feature, is not a good idea.
Mhhhh... don't agree. 'Image is a kind of hidden genericity, and students  
would get more benefit in learning the explicit one. Student will get more  
learning to instantiate generics which are used every-where, better than  
thinking the purpose of the language is to provide them tricky candies to  
quickly do this and that and that using Ada there are expected to play  
with or think about such tricky things.

Generic instantiation (or user defined functions for user defined types)  
is a more proper way to reach the OP's given expectation than using an  
'Image, which as Jean-Pierre said, should be reserved for quick and dirty  
stuff. 'Image is not a big deal of the language, that's its purpose.

Forgive me for these wording I don't like : starting to have heavy  
requirement on the 'Image attribute would be the start of bloating and the  
start of Ada as a library instead of Ada as a language and as a design  
language..

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