Ada Programming, Delimiters

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Single character delimiters

&
ampersand (operator)
'
apostrophe, tick
(
left parenthesis
)
right parenthesis
asterisk, multiply (operator)
+
plus sign (operator)
,
comma
hyphen, minus (operator)
.
full stop, point, dot
/
solidus, divide (operator)
:
colon
;
semicolon
<
less than sign (operator)
=
equal sign (operator)
>
greater than sign (operator)
|
vertical line

Compound character delimiters

=>
arrow
..
double dot
**
double star, exponentiate (operator)
:=
assignment
/=
inequality (operator)
>=
greater than or equal to (operator)
<=
less than or equal to (operator)
<<
left label bracket
>>
right label bracket
<>
box

Others

The following ones are special characters but not delimiters.

"
quotation mark, used for string literals.
#
number sign, used in based numeric literals.
The following special characters are unused in Ada code - they are illegal except within string literals and comments (they are used in the Reference Manual Backus-Naur syntax definition of Ada):

[
left square bracket
]
right square bracket
{
left curly bracket
}
right curly bracket

See also

Wikibook

• Ada Programming

Ada 95 Reference Manual

• 2.1: Character Set [Annotated]
• 2.2: Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters [Annotated]

Ada 2005 Reference Manual

• 2.1: Character Set [Annotated]
• 2.2: Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters [Annotated]

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