From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,75c440b4b7ed5f91 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Real Time IO routines Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:40:28 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1193410739.367181.96050@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1193674697.257242.163990@v23g2000prn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1193676032 15669 192.74.137.71 (29 Oct 2007 16:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:40:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9+fhUhKx89jgSnS4IaEwWxxiwM8= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2618 Date: 2007-10-29T12:40:28-04:00 List-Id: Adam Beneschan writes: > ... The semantics and result of 'Image are > well-defined by the language. If those semantics are acceptable for a > particular use, then there's nothing wrong with using 'Image (unless > there's an issue with using a secondary stack as Ludovic mentioned). True. But it's pretty annoying that: 'Image of integers includes an unwanted leading space. 'Image does not provide the formatting control that Text_IO does. You have to include the name of the type in the code. 'Image of enumeration literals does not print what appears in the source code -- it converts to ALL_CAPS. - Bob