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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
Subject: Re: two Ada95 syntax questions
Date: 09 Mar 2005 19:26:50 +0100
Date: 2005-03-09T19:26:51+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ufyz4ekut.fsf@obry.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 455a31fd.0503091021.7650206e@posting.google.com


robertfm@eforell.com (bob) writes:

> Does Ada95 support multi-line comments?  (i.e. /*О©╫.*/)  Seems like I
> remember some compilers do though I don't see this in the LRM.

No.

> Does it support multi-line extensions?  (i.e.:
> 
> Blah blah\
> Blah  -- blahs all on same line

No. This is not needed. For string it is posssible to use '&' operator which
is handled at compile time.

   Var : constant String := "This is a multi-line string value"
          & " which is analyzed at compile time, so operator '&'"
          & " has no runtime penalty";

Pascal.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-09 18:21 two Ada95 syntax questions bob
2005-03-09 18:26 ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2005-03-09 18:28 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-03-09 19:12 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-03-11 21:42 ` Keith Thompson
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