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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:31:07 +0000 (UTC)
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* Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
>`operator=' improves readability if left side is non-trivial.
>
>Example:
>A->foo[1].start.x = A->foo[1].start.x % 640;
>A->foo[1].start.x %= 640;

declare
  w : myType renames A.foo(1).start.x;
begin
  w := w mod 640;
end;

>>>- no printf or equivalent
>> 
>> Oohooh. You don't really need a debugger. ;-)
>
>It's not for debugging.
>printf-like functions take much, much less code than Ada Text_IO.

I'm not sure:
ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/lutz/ada/formatted_print/

>Compiler (at least gcc) warns when you screw formants.

printf is an runtime interpreter. That's ugly.