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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: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:32:02 GMT
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In article <3A71FD83.281DFC3E@cadence.com>,
  Paul Graham <pgraham@cadence.com> wrote:

> I'm curious what the basis is for this reliance on attributes
> being more than one character long.

Well that's easy enough to see! It's easier to do it this way.

> You don't check the preceding token's type to
> determine if a character literal is allowed?

Read the thread, I already posted the details of this
approach.


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