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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Record operations (Algebraic Data Types and printing)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:03:26 -0500
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"AdaMagica" <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de> wrote in message 
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>Am Freitag, 5. Oktober 2018 19:46:32 UTC+2 schrieb Henrik Härkönen:
>
>> Now as I'm playing with the records, I'd like to print them out, just for
>> "debugging" purposes. Is there any convenient way to splash them out
>> in console? Some sort of default string representation? Seems that
>> 'Image attribute works only for scalar types.
>
>Do it yourself... There is no such default.
>
>A record may have private (even limited) components. What should a default 
>for these look like?

Well, AI12-0020-1 attempts to answer that question, so it can't be 
impossible. ;-) [Wait a day or two before looking at it, Steve B. just sent 
a new version that isn't posted yet.]

For the OP: Ada 2020 most likely will have a mechanism to do what you want. 
But you probably don't want to wait for that to show up in your favorite 
compiler. So you do in fact have to do it yourself.

                              Randy.