Ada Programming/Delimiters

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)
 * Ada Programming/Delimiters/: : 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

Wikibook

 * Ada Programming

Ada 2005 Reference Manual


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