Question on use of ! instead of |

[James Alan Farrell <jfarrell@nospam.com>]

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Hi all,
I'm working on a program to analyze Ada code using ASIS.  We use ACATS 
to test our software, and this has turned up some behavior I'm having 
troubles explaining.

ACATS test a2a031a.adb (below) has a line in it:

      VAR := (A!B => E2, C ! D => 0);    -- AGGREGATE.

According to ASIS, "A!B" is an identifier.  If I put spaces around the ! 
then A and B are identifiers and things work the way I expect, and if I 
replace the ! with a | again things work the way I expect.

Could this be a bug in the compiler or in ASIS?

I couldn't find ! in the ARM.  It's supposed to be a direct replacement 
for |, correct?  (ie, they should work the same semantically and 
syntactically?)

I am using gnat 3.15p and the appropriate matching version of ASIS.

Thanks,
James Alan Farrell
Grammatech, inc.


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--   IN AN AGGREGATE
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-- JBG 5/25/85

WITH REPORT; USE REPORT;
PROCEDURE A2A031A IS

      TYPE ENUM IS (E1, E2, E3);
      TYPE REC (A, B : ENUM) IS
           RECORD
                C : INTEGER;
                CASE A IS
                     WHEN E1 ! E2 =>     -- CHOICE OF VARIANT.
                          D : INTEGER;
                     WHEN E3 =>
                          E : FLOAT;
                END CASE;
           END RECORD;

      EX1, EX2, EX3 : EXCEPTION;

      VAR  : REC (A!B => E2);            -- DISCRIMINANT CONSTRAINT.

      EVAR : ENUM := E2;

BEGIN

      TEST ("A2A031A", "CHECK USE OF ! AS SEPARATOR IN PLACE OF |");

      CASE EVAR IS
           WHEN E3 => NULL;
           WHEN E2!E1 => NULL;           -- CASE STATEMENT CHOICE.
      END CASE;

      VAR := (A!B => E2, C ! D => 0);    -- AGGREGATE.

      RESULT;
EXCEPTION
      WHEN EX1!EX2 ! EX3 => NULL;        -- EXCEPTION HANDLER.
END A2A031A;

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