Re: Char type verification

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 07:33 -0800, KE wrote:

> The challenge was purposefully simple and messy so that you didn't get
> bogged down with the theoretical intricacies of a major one.
> 
> I guess this is not the way people use comp.lang.ada.

But this use will be most welcome. It might be just us not seeing
the real intent of the question (table lookup using character
positions, e.g.), because of the following.
 You might now know that on many occasions people have approached
Ada programmers and asked, by analogy, "How do I write Fortran 77
in Ada?" This can trigger some corrective rhetoric.
Much like a Pavlovian creature, an Ada programmer might react to
an example that just *looks* like one of these attempts to avoid
learning how to use the language in ways it was intended to be used.
Which is not the case here, as we know now.


-- Georg