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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
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Subject: RE: very specific question on Ada syntax
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:38:33 GMT
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In article <mailman.980504596.2748.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> This was because I was wondering if a character literal could
> be tokenized without context. I guess not. In
>
>   A'B'C
>
> 'B' has the form of a character literal, but it is not it. I
> could perhap rely on the fact (?) that there is no attribute
> of only one letter, but that is twisted to say the least.

And, as per my previous comment, wrong, for example, assuming
you accept the brackets notation used for example in the ACATS
tests, you should accept '["0041"]' as equivalent to 'A'.

I strongly suggest reading scn.adb from the GNAT sources when
you have questions about lexical scanning, it is easy reading!


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