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Delimiters '
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The special character ' (called tic) has two meanings. Which of the two options is to be used is determined by context from the compiler.
Character literal
As delimiter for characters literals:
Plus : constant Character := '+';
Attribute delimiter
As a separator between an identifier and an attribute:
for Day_Of_Month'Size use 8;
See also
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Ada Programming
Ada Programming/Delimiters
Ada Reference Manual
4 1 4 Attributes
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