From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: "strings are delimited by double quote character", where there's a character variable
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 17:49:45 +0100
Date: 2017-12-01T17:49:45+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <8f8f88d8-b9f6-492e-991a-283509b21696@googlegroups.com>
On 12/01/2017 04:08 PM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> C: Character := ''; -- strings are delimited by double quote character
'' is not a Character. It's not any legal Ada construct. The only place '' can
occur in Ada is in a comment or a string literal.
Apparently the most common reason for '' that the GNAT error-message writers
have seen is as a typo for "", hence the error message, which would be
meaningful in such a case. Not very useful for someone who doesn't understand
what a Character is.
--
Jeff Carter
"We call your door-opening request a silly thing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2017-12-01 15:08 "strings are delimited by double quote character", where there's a character variable Mehdi Saada
2017-12-01 16:38 ` A. Cervetti
2017-12-01 16:43 ` AdaMagica
2017-12-01 16:49 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2017-12-01 18:13 ` Mehdi Saada
2017-12-01 17:23 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-12-01 17:44 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-12-01 19:09 ` Shark8
2017-12-05 21:45 ` Keith Thompson
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