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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: What exactly is the ' operator
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 17:58:11 GMT
Date: 2004-10-06T17:58:11+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <TmW8d.7614$M05.3323@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.212.1097059129.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>

Marius Amado Alves wrote:

>> Thanks. Does "it" have a name then?
> 
> Yes: tick.

"Tick" is how it's pronounced: X'Size is spoke as "X Tick Size". 
"Attribute notation" is probably a good name. ARM 4.1.4 ("Attributes") 
uses "attribute_reference"

attribute_reference ::= prefix'attribute_designator

The apostrophe is also used for character literals.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Death awaits you all, with nasty, big, pointy teeth!"
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-06  9:40 What exactly is the ' operator matthias_k
2004-10-06 10:18 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-06 10:33   ` matthias_k
2004-10-06 10:38     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-06 10:41       ` stephane richard
2004-10-06 17:58       ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-10-06 20:51         ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-06 10:40     ` stephane richard
2004-10-06 17:28   ` Martin Krischik
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