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From: Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.de>
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Subject: Re: very specific question on Ada syntax
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 06:53:49 +0100 (MET)
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Date: 2001-02-02T06:53:49+01:00

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> In practice of course it is very unlikely that any
> implementation would introduce a single character attribute,
> it would be very unada to do so.
> 
> Furthermore there are almost no attributes that can apply to
> a character literal anyway.

OK, I know that, but if I have learnt anything valuable from this, it's that 
from a syntax point of view, it's irrelevant whether such an attribute exists or 
not.

It's just fun to see something like (C'('C')'C) :-)
which is an illegal expression, whereas (C'('(')) is legal.

Christoph Grein