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"Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu> wrote in message
news:eolhua$1fnm$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu...
> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:J_udnYhOH7i4zjDYnZ2dnUVZ_r2onZ2d@megapath.net...
...
> > It would be
> > even easier if we had a mechanism for user-defined 'Image (which would
allow
> > automatic converting to strings to keep the existing Ada.Exceptions
routines
> > working).

> Would a possible mechanism for user-defined 'Image be to allow the default
> to be overridden the way 'Read and 'Write attributes can be overridden?
For
> the case of something with no 'Image attribute, one would be defined by
the
> "override."

I was thinking of something like that. But that is a completely unbaked idea
at the moment; there's probably some ugly problem that I haven't thought of.

                             Randy.