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Yves Bailly wrote:
> 
> As I understand it, the real question was : "having a list of contiguous
> values of some type, how to know if a given value of that same type is
> contained into the list". It's a kind of basic hashing: you can assume
> to always be able to map your type's values to integers. So you can
> replace "list of contiguous values" by "range of values".

The real question was: "how would you convert this to Ada." This was 
then repeated as: "How do you translate this example to Ada?" Since the 
code presented determined whether a character was in 'A' .. 'Z', he 
should not be surprised to receive answers that used "in 'A' .. 'Z'".

I'm sorry, but I don't accept that someone who's able to write the 
example is unable to ask, "How do you convert a character to an 
integer?" or, "How do you determine if a value is in a range of values?" 
if that's what he really wanted to ask.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Hello! Smelly English K...niggets."
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