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 : constant Character := '+';

Attribute delimiter

As a separator between an identifier and an attribute: 

for Day_Of_Month'Size use 8;

See also

Wikibook

Ada Reference Manual

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