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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 17:11:34 -0400
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"Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> What there were thinking about ? Perhaps proper display when different
> numbers are displayed on a column and some are Integer, others
> Natural.

But for "columns" you want something like:

    1
   -3
  123
 -123

But 'Image gives you:

 1
-3
 123
-123

I don't get it.  'Image isn't particularly helpful in producing
columnar output.

>... By  the way, Natural is a subset of Integer, so these are
> numbers which are  always positive, not numbers without a sign.

Sure, but the vast majority of integers I want to do 'Image on
are nonnegative.  For example, if you print the length of a
String, there is zero chance that it's negative, so leaving
an extra blank in case it might be negative makes no sense.

- Bob