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: 103376,1e08410099d337f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sandro Magi Subject: Re: creating own Image function Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1104339103.436794.134250@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:58:05 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.93.207.157 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1105833485 65.93.207.157 (Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:58:05 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:58:05 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7833 Date: 2005-01-15T18:58:05-05:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > I disagree. These are mostly extremely basic questions that the OP would > not be asking if he'd looked at any text or worked through any tutorial. > Given the number of texts and tutorials available on line through > adapower.com and adaworld.com, I don't think it's a good idea to answer > these questions, as it only encourages more. While I'm all for > encouraging people to learn Ada, I'm not in favor of teaching it through > posts and responses on c.l.a. I'm perfectly willing to answer questions > from someone who's made the effort to learn the basics. I disagree. I worked my way through many tutorials when learning Ada a few months ago, and nowhere did I find a mention of custom attributes or and functions like 'Image (I had to ask here). The answer was buried in the Reference Manual, which someone here helpfully pointed out. The RM is not something immediately recommended for newbies IMO; it's far too high a barrier to entry.