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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the ....
Date: 1996/02/23
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Date: 1996-02-23T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <milodDn4y3q.Kz4@netcom.com>,
John DiCamillo <milod@netcom.com> wrote:
>That's not quite true:
>        I := X'SIZE;
>
>Looks like "POSTFIX" to me.  (and syntactically hideous to
>boot: overloading a "grouping" token as a separator token
>--yech!)

I agree with the "yech".  (Although, the same thing is true in English
-- the ' is used as an apostrophe and also as a quotation mark.)

And it's an annoyance to compiler writer's, too.  Consider:

    X: Character := Character'('z');

where the string

    '('

is *not* a character literal.

Not a huge implementation problem, but still an annoyance.

- Bob