Ada Programming/Delimiters/dot

Decimal literals
π := := 3.145926;

Based literals
Not_π := := 16#3.145926#;

Names
Used in the explicit dereference of an access type, like in:

X := Some_Access.;

Selected components
Selection of components from records and packages, entries from tasks and protected types, and - in Ada 2005 - primitive operations from tagged types.

My_Object.My_Operation (Some_Parameter);

Subprogram declarations
Declaration of a procedure or function.

Wikibook

 * Ada Programming
 * Ada Programming/Delimiters

Ada Reference Manual


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