"Lucretia" <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote in message 
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On Saturday, 6 October 2018 08:08:38 UTC+1, Henrik Härkönen  wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 October 2018 08:39:01 UTC+3, J-P. Rosen  wrote:
>> > Yet. There is a proposal for Ada 202X, see AI12-0020
>>
>> Indeed, "AI12-0020-1 'Image for all types", sweet! :)
>
>Shame this doesn't seem to have made it into the latest standard :(

It's (the Standard) not done yet. This is expected to make it in. Check back 
after the October ARG meeting.

>This is something that should've been in the language from the start or at
>least 95, this can be used for converting data, in a standard way, to XML,
> JSON, YAML or TOML, etc.

There's no 'Value proposed at this time. That is a much bigger problem for 
limited and private types (how does one get the value of a task or protected 
object?), it's messier for user-defined 'Image, etc. It's on the radar, but 
not likely for Ada 2020.

                                 Randy.

                                            Randy.