Re: Char type verification

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

KE wrote:

> 
> Thank you, Mr. Rogers.
> 
> jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>> This is an awful piece of code because it must perform a number
>> of conversions between character and numeric values.
> 
> In the lowly, quick-and-dirty C world, most data is an integer of one
> form or another, anyway, so you shouldn't be worried about that ;-]
> ...or at least about my "awfulness" as a coder.
> 
> I appreciate your code. It's the second attempt at a solution. I was
> waiting for someone to define a subtype with a range, and you provided
> that variation.
> 
> Seeing how many valid - although differentially elegant and/or
> efficient - Ada ways of doing this exists was my aim, though I seem not
> to have quite elicited enthusiasm.

You're getting quite some flak but you must understand that transliterating
C into Ada is one of the capital sins over here... You want it for learning
purposes but some people rather would prefer that you /unlearn/ the C
low-level tricks :)

Don't be taken back, this is a very friendly group...