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