Ada Programming/Delimiters

Delimiters __TOC__ 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 2 2 Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters Ada 2005 Reference Manual 2 1 Character Set 2 2 Lexical Elements, Separators, and Delimiters Delimiters