Single character delimiters

&

ampersand (also operator &)

'

apostrophe, tick

(

left parenthesis

)

right parenthesis

*

asterisk, multiply (also operator *)

+

plus sign (also operator +)

,

comma

-

hyphen, minus (also operator -)

.

full stop, point, dot

/

solidus, divide (also operator /)

:

colon

;

semicolon

<

less than sign (also operator)

=

equal sign (also operator =)

>

greater than sign (also operator)

|

vertical line

Compound character delimiters

=>

arrow

..

double dot

**

double star, exponentiate (also operator **)

:=

assignment

/=

inequality (also operator)

>=

greater than or equal to (also operator)

<=

less than or equal to (also 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