Re: Ada -vs- GNAT

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

"Steve Doiel" <nospam_steved94@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<8tNH8.76854$L76.130053@rwcrnsc53>...
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnaeug17.pa.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> > On Sat, 25 May 2002 02:47:52 GMT, Steve Doiel wrote:
> > >
> > > Recently I did some work with XML/Ada and found a few pieces code
>  dependent
> > > on the GNAT specific attributes 'img and 'unrestricted_access.  I was
>  able
> > > to make the code work with ObjectAda (and any other Ada compiler) by
>  making
> > > a few small changes to the sources.
> >
> Why not use
>      Put_Line( Some_Type'Image( Some_Value ) )
> 
> and avoid the habit of using non-standard features.

Because when you are writing debugging statements, it is
a time when convenience of writing dominates maintenance
and readability concerns (since they don't arise). So 
that's when 'Img is useful (although we had in mind 
originally that 'Img should remove the dratted space
in front of integers and also allow arrays, records etc).
(again for convenience of debugging).