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From: Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>
Subject: Re: how to check if a string variable contains a number or string?
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:21:43 GMT
Date: 2002-11-19T01:21:43+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DD99222.5010904@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1037667002.24035.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

sk wrote:
> 
> ... yes, time consuming, boring and not "sexy" but better,
> IMO, than using exception routines for predictable error
> circumstances.

Reinventing the wheel is never better than reusing existing subprograms.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail




  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-18 20:41 how to check if a string variable contains a number or string? Sarah Thomas
2002-11-18 21:09 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-18 21:50   ` David C. Hoos
2002-11-19  0:44 ` sk
2002-11-19  1:21   ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-11-19  4:41     ` sk
2002-11-19 17:02       ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-24  0:10         ` AG
2002-11-23 20:05           ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-19  1:26 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-19  3:19 ` SteveD
2002-11-19  9:38 ` Preben Randhol
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