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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Character Type?
Date: 1999/01/27
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Bill Ghrist <ghristwd@pgh.net> writes:

> Well, I'm pretty new with Ada, but the obvious problem, I think, is that
> '10' is not a character, it is a string. 

I don't think it's either!

GNAT 3.11p  (981118) Copyright 1992-1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Compiling: blug.adb (source file time stamp: 1999-01-27 22:11:18)

     1. with Text_Io;
     2. procedure Blug is
     3. begin
     4.   Text_Io.Put_Line ('10');
                            |
        >>> strings are delimited by double quote character

     5. end Blug;

 5 lines: 1 error
gnatmake: "blug.adb" compilation error