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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: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:58:31 GMT
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In article <mailman.981026222.22976.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> ''''A'B => character literal '''
>            'A attribute
>            'B attribute
> and not character literal '''
>         character literal 'A'
>         identifier        B
>
> And I always thought Ada is not cryptic :-)

Anyone can write anything in any language in cryptic form
if they try hard enough :-)

In practice of course it is very unlikely that any
implementation would introduce a single character attribute,
it would be very unada to do so.

Furthermore there are almost no attributes that can apply to
a character literal anyway.


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