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On 6/6/22 23:40, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> 
> That's a really good idea I would say. Extremely useful during development where I often start the debugger just to know what value triggered a Constraint_Error.

    Starting gdb and adding 'put_Line's often is what prompted the 
thought :) .


> I guess the drawback is performance as formatting string with extra information will have a cost.
> But this feature could be activated with a switch only when needed.

    A compiler switch to be used during development and debugging sounds 
ideal.