Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ??

[john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)]

On Fri, 31 May 2002 09:53:43 +0200, Poul-Erik Andreasen
<poulerik@pea.dk> wrote:

>> In Ada statements can spread on multiple lines. 

>Yes, but not for strings.
>
>This function call wont work
>
>Put(" This is a message over more than one line
>to illustrate that Ada don ignor newlines completely");
>
>It vill an error 
>
>missing string quote

Of course it will - what other modern, high level language would allow
you to do that? Certainly not C or C++. In fact Ada's string
concatenation operator ('&' as you've shown below) is one of the most
elegant ways I know of carrying this out.

>
>It have to bee
>
>Put(" This is a message over more than one line" &
>"to illustrate that Ada don ignor newlines completely");
> 
>
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