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From: "Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Char type verification
Date: 16 Nov 2006 11:53:44 -0800
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> KE wrote:
> >
> > It was intended as "How do you translate this example to Ada? How would
> > you, as a presumably experienced Ada coder, do it? What hoops would we
> > jump through?
>
> What this example does is output whether the 1st character of the 1st
> command-line argument is in the range 'A' .. 'Z'. In the Ada world, we
> tend to ignore the details of badly designed examples in poorly designed
> languages and simply implement the same functionality. Since there is no
> reason for your conversions and home-grown function, we're not going to
> waste effort translating them.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure the OP actually cared about the
functionality.  After reading the interaction in this thread, I'm
beginning to think he really wanted to know about a certain Ada feature
or two (such as going between characters and integers), and threw
together a quick little example to try it out, and then ran into
problems and asked us for help, and all of us here assumed that the
little example *was* the functionality that the poster was trying to
accomplish.   I'm just saying this so that maybe next time an Ada
newcomer uses an example to ask a question, maybe we should try to see
what he's really asking.  Sure, he could have asked it better, but we
can't presume that someone who's new to this language is going to know
just how to ask questions about the language.

                            -- Adam