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"James Alan Farrell" <jfarrell@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
> I'm working on a program to analyze Ada code using ASIS.  We use ACATS
> to test our software, and this has turned up some behavior I'm having
> troubles explaining.
>
> ACATS test a2a031a.adb (below) has a line in it:
>
>      VAR := (A!B => E2, C ! D => 0);    -- AGGREGATE.
>
> According to ASIS, "A!B" is an identifier.  If I put spaces around the !
> then A and B are identifiers and things work the way I expect, and if I
> replace the ! with a | again things work the way I expect.
>

Ada 95 Reference Manual
2.3 Identifiers

  identifier ::= identifier_letter{[underline]letter_or_digit}

I would certainly say that A!B is not an identifier.

Seems worthy of sending a report to AdaCore.

report@gnat.com

(as I recall)

Steve
(The Duck)