Re: Usage of \ in Ada

["Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> > If LF is a line terminator, you can't put it in a string literal.
>
> That's what I mean. Only identifier letters, digits, spaces and
>
> "Any character of the ISO 10646 BMP that is not reserved for a control
> function, and is not the space_character, an identifier_letter, or a digit"
>
> are allowed. Actually it is not different from escape sequences of C,
> except that once escaped you won't get back without a compile error.
>
> ------------
> P.S. it seems that OP question actually cannot be answered. Whether \ is
> reserved for a control function depends on the platform.

No, it depends on ISO 10646.  And character 92 (\) is not reserved for
a control function in that ISO standard.  See also RM95 2.1(17).

                    -- Adam