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Subject: Re: Parameterised 'Image Attributes
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On 28.08.23 18:09, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On 2023-08-28 17:42, Stephen Davies wrote:
>> On Monday, 28 August 2023 at 11:58:24 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> On 2023-08-28 11:18, Stephen Davies wrote:
>>> This will not happen either. But here I would agree, it is clearly a
>>> case of language littering.
>>
>> Littering, schmittering, how about adding Bin_Image, Oct_Image & Hex_Image
>> for Ints and Dec_Image for Ints & Reals ;-)
> 
> Bin_Width_1_Image, Dec_Width_4_Image and so on... Cool, make Ada C again! (:-))

Or maybe leave type attributes alone. Instead, let Ada.Streams
have I/O manipulating setters.

Then,  in order to preserve the meaning of "corresponding S'Output"
(LRM 13.13.2) for every S'Input, add AI to the Ada run-time system.