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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Ada has no continual line(s) ??
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"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<97xJ8.18262$wd3.3068622@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com  > The compiler might throw away the &
> function and replace it with one long string in the above 
> case (if it was more efficient to do so), since the 
> expression doesn't involve a variable
> string, but that's just a guess.  Would GNAT do that?  


Yes, of course, this is essentially required by the language since
this is a static string expression as
defined in RM 4.9.