Ada Programming/Delimiters/'

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 : Character := '+';

Attribute delimiter
As a separator between an identifier and an attribute:

Day_Of_Month' 8;

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