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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Yes, but it's good to be precise.

Absolutely! I should have said "qualified expression" in my original 
post. Sorry for any confusion that I may have caused.

>>     Foo'(',',',',',' ... ) 
> 
> Clearly you have an evil mind :)

Well, there is a good reason to consider this worst case scenario. I 
have seen quick and dirty Ada lexers that try to determine if a single 
quote starts a character literal by looking ahead 2 character. As this 
scenario shows, this approach is not guaranteed to work.