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Subject: Re: lexical ambiguity
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The biggest lexical issue with Ada is the multiple uses of the single quote:

- Single quotes surround character literals (e.g. 'A'),
- prefix attributes (for example List'First), and
- are used in aggregates, such as Rational'(Num =>1, Demom => 2).