Re: reverse Integer'image(someString);

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:

> Jeff C" <jcreem@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:KIednSCHV-GzTfHfRVn-qw@comcast.com...
> > Adrien Plisson wrote:
> snip
> > What does work fine are:
> >
> > a)
> >
> >   Text_IO.Put_Line(Integer'Image(Some_Integer));
> >
> > b)
> >
> >   declare
> >     Some_String : constant String := Integer'Image(Some_Integer);
> >   begin
> >     ...play with Some_String
> >   end;
> 
> The "constant" in the declaration of Some_String is not only
> unnecessary, but would prevent some types of "playing"
> with Some_String.

I like the way GNAT (possibly with extra warnings, -gnatwaL) tells you
that something that is only initialized could have been declared
constant.

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