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Hibou57 wrote:
> 
> But as pointed by someone, the grammar is not LR(1), due to the fact
> (which is common to many other languages), that as an exemple X(Y) can
> stand for a type cast, a function call, an array access, or even an
> array slice, and this cannot be decided without knowlegde of the
> context.

X (Y) cannot represent a type cast because Ada does not have anything called 
"type cast".

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