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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Usage of \ in Ada
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:42:24 +0200
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:47:48 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> 
>> I.e. placing LF character into a string literal, be prepared to
>> surprises...
> 
> 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.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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