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Subject: Re: gettext for Ada
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

>     if Option_Slice = "Op" or Option_Slice = "oP" or Option_Slice = "OP" or 
> Option_Slice = "op" then
>          Do_Operation_Option;
>     elsif Option_Slice = "Oz" or Option_Slice = "oZ" or Option_Slice = "OZ" 
> or Option_Slice = "oz" then
>          Do_Optimization_Option;
>     else
>          Option_Error (10);
>     end if;
>
> The above is quite common in my code (perhap premature optimation on
> my part, knowing that a function like To_Upper is many times more
> expensive than a string compare).

Yes, but also prone to the sort of error where you copy the code for "+"
into the function "-" and forget to change the actual operation.