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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: ADA.STRINGS.INDEX_ERROR : a-strunb.adb:782
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:55:20 +0100
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On 18/01/2018 12:14, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> In Ada attributes are not considered operations as they should.
> 
> In spite of the way some attributes can be overridden by operations
> (e.g. 'Read).

Yes. It should rather have been an operator-syntax with a 
straightforward sugar:

    function "'Image" (X : Integer) return String;

    X'Image <=> "'Image" (X)

And of course primitive for tagged types.

P.S. Falls into the categories "not ugly enough" and "too simple" to 
adopt... (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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