Re: creating own Image function

["Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:04:08 +0100, Mark Lorenzen wrote:

> "R" <ruthless@poczta.onet.pl> writes:
> 
>> Hello.
>> 
>> I've written my own Image function it's sth like Java's toString.
>> 
>> function Image(this: rec1) return String is
>> tmp : String(1..26);
>> begin
>> tmp := "The value of field is:" & Integer'Image(Get(this));
>> return tmp;
>> end Image;
> 
> Your questions are really newbee questions and I recommend that you
> read a book about Ada in order to get it right from the beginning and
> not take your knowledge of other languages into "Ada world".

Hmmm, a bit too harsh, me thinks. Obviously, just correcting it like you
did would've been enough.

Although, he does have a good point (kind of), about creating your own
image functions, I would prefer it if you could provide an Image function
for a type and have T'Image call that function. That would be a really
nice addition to the language.

Luke.