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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@__n_o_s_p_a_m__abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ada Advocacy.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:09:14 +0100
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:12:08 -0500, Wes Groleau wrote:

> 
>>>The good Ada feature for the debug purpose is an image of enumeration values.
>>>But I do not think that we need image of the object names.
> 
> However, I could imagine the usefulness of something like
> 
>    pragma Debug_Output ( Debugging => true, Entity_Name );
> 
> where, if Debugging is false, does nothing, otherwise
> prints something like
> 
>     Entity_Name => (something like Entity_Name'Img)
>     at line 345 of filename.adb (line 37 of Package.SubProg)

Actually, indirectly, you've also shown another example of a really cool
feature of Ada

function blah(a : Integer, b : Float) : Boolean;
...
blah(b => 1.0, a => 10);

It'd be so cool to be able to do this in other languages...

Luke.