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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Parameterised 'Image Attributes
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:03:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubq40t$ni21$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ubq15l$oa8i$1@dont-email.me>

On 2023-08-19 11:14, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> The intent of the 'Image attribute is to have a quick representation, 
> mainly for debugging purposes.

It seems that for the vast majority of Ada users this intent was wrong...

> If you want nice formatted output, use 
> the Put procedure on String from Text_IO.

Put does not supersede 'Image. Put is I/O. 'Image is pure string 
formatting. Put is generic and requires instantiation of some package 
with some difficult to guess name. 'Image is built-in [statically] 
dispatching and generated automatically by the compiler.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-19 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-18  7:18 Parameterised 'Image Attributes Rod Kay
2023-08-18  8:25 ` Luke A. Guest
2023-08-19  9:14   ` J-P. Rosen
2023-08-19 10:03     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2023-08-19 11:45       ` Luke A. Guest
2023-08-19 11:56       ` J-P. Rosen
2023-08-19 13:01         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-19 15:27     ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-08-20  7:53       ` G.B.
2023-08-20  9:27         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-21 23:11           ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-21 23:37           ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-22  7:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-19 16:49     ` moi
2023-08-20  7:25       ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-20  9:43         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-21 23:34           ` Randy Brukardt
2023-08-22  8:13             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-23 10:20               ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-23 16:16                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-24 19:59                   ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-25  7:26                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-25  9:04                       ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-25 13:02                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28  9:18                           ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-28 10:58                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 15:42                               ` Stephen Davies
2023-08-28 16:09                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 17:33                                   ` G.B.
2023-08-28 19:08                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-28 17:58                               ` Niklas Holsti
2023-08-28 19:08                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-09-07  1:04                               ` Randy Brukardt
2023-09-07  9:01                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-08-18 18:53 ` Keith Thompson
2023-09-23 10:00 ` Rod Kay
2023-09-26  5:47   ` Vadim Godunko
2023-09-26 10:15     ` Rod Kay
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