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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 17:46:09 +0200
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Le Fri, 07 May 2010 16:25:37 +0200, Robert A Duff  =

<bobduff@shell01.theworld.com> a =E9crit:
> 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 student=
s  =

would get more benefit in learning the explicit one. Student will get mo=
re  =

learning to instantiate generics which are used every-where, better than=
  =

thinking the purpose of the language is to provide them tricky candies t=
o  =

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 dirt=
y  =

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 t=
he  =

start of Ada as a library instead of Ada as a language and as a design  =

language..

-- =

No-no, this isn't an oops ...or I hope (TM) - Don't blame me... I'm just=
  =

not lucky