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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Usage of \ in Ada
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:35:53 +0200
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On 22 Aug 2006 11:13:28 -0700, Adam Beneschan wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> P.S. it seems that OP question actually cannot be answered. Whether \ is
>> reserved for a control function depends on the platform.
> 
> No, it depends on ISO 10646.  And character 92 (\) is not reserved for
> a control function in that ISO standard.  See also RM95 2.1(17).

Yes, that should exclude the code position 16#5C# (\).

Its wording is interesting, because it uses "code position", and yet leaves
source representation free. I wonder, if that might lead to confusion.
Consider an HTML encoded Ada program containing a string literal
represented as &34;&10;&34; ('"' & LF & '"'). That could be illegal, if the
code position 10 (LF) is control.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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