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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> Of course it must be generic, which kills all fun.

As noted in my other message, resurrecting the Ada 95 idea allowing 
class-wide types for elementary types would eliminate (or at least greatly 
reduce) this problem. I think that would be a more productive way to address 
this problem than hacking around with 'Image some more. (We've already 
proven that it is not a good way to define anything user-defined, thus the 
rather complex way to define such 'Image attributes.)

                                      Randy.