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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Recursion with strings
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:15:53 -0400
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:

> Joe wrote:
>> Thrice, I'm not sure I know what you're getting at.
>
> It's good practice to make such values into named numbers.

Do you really think that's useful in this case, where 2**8
appears several times close together?  What would you call
that named number -- Two_To_The_Eighth?

>> One other thing.  The image attribute returns a string with a space in
>> front.  Is there any way to get rid of the space?
>
> Technically, 'Image for numeric types begins with the sign, which is ' '
> for non-negative numbers and '-' for negative values. That doesn't make
> it any more user friendly.
>
> There are a number of ways to "get rid" of the space. Probably the
> easiest is to slice the image to exclude the 1st Character. See ARM
> 4.1.2.

Right, the extra blank is very annoying, but not so hard to get rid of.

- Bob