D Tokens

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Markus" <Markus_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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> My question is this:
> How do you name those characters (delimiters, operators or somehow else)?

I don't know Ada, but do you mean things like braces and semicolons ({, }, 
;)?  I wrote a C-style scripting language parser thing, and I called those 
"particles."  This is to parallel the use of particles in Japanese, which do 
not have any inherent meaning, but which simply define the grammatical 
structure of the sentence.  In the same way, braces and semicolons simply 
describe the structure of the program, and really only have meaning to the 
compiler and aren't directly represented in the final machine code which is 
generated.