# Ada Programming/Delimiters


## Single character delimiters

& : ampersand `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\' : apostrophe, tick\
( : left parenthesis\
) "wikilink") : right parenthesis\
\* : asterisk, multiply `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
+ : plus sign `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
, : comma\
- : hyphen, minus `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
. : full stop, point, dot\
/ : solidus, divide `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
: : colon\
; : semicolon\
\< : less than sign `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
= : equal sign `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\> : greater than sign `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\| : vertical line

## Compound character delimiters

=\> : arrow\
.. : double dot\
\*\* : double star, exponentiate `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
:= : assignment\
/= : inequality `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\>= : greater than or equal to `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\<= : less than or equal to `<small>`{=html}(operator)`</small>`{=html}\
\<\< : 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

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### Ada 2005 Reference Manual

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