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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Parameterised 'Image Attributes
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 12:03:09 +0200
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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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