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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Its called an attribute. All sort of things can have attributes. i.E. the
> Integer'Image () (function) attribute creates a String repesenting and
> Integer.

This is the main feature which confounds attempts to use the C
preprocessor on Ada programs. It also confounds "ordinary" program
editors that believe single quotes should come in matched pairs.

Yet another obstacle for potential new users of Ada, who might want
to load up some Ada code in a non-Ada IDE to have a look at it.