Re: Char type verification

[Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>]

>>>>> "Ludovic" == Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

    Ludovic> I think the incident is really a culture clash stemming
    Ludovic> from Ada's nature as a high level language, its
    Ludovic> strictess, and its emphasis on readability.

    Ludovic> High level means that Ada allows you to think in terms of
    Ludovic> your problem (uppercase and lowercase letters) rather
    Ludovic> than the solution (bit patterns and bit masks).

Good point - however not specific to Ada. So often I have been
requested by a client to implement a solution (whether network design,
programming, etc) that is inadequate or inefficient at solving the
problem. This is the best I can do either because I have not been told
what the problem is or because the client wants me to install their
solution as is in the quickest possible time.

In some cases this process has repeated numerous times until the
client gets fed up and goes to another vendor.

In this case I saw nothing wrong with the question or the answers -
there is always a chance no matter how precise you ask the question
that people will misunderstand or misread it. In which case you can
either ignore the answers that don't answer your question or correct
any misunderstandings.

Had we responded with the translation from C, other people reading
this thread may have left with the misunderstanding that Ada doesn't
have any simple way of determining if a character is uppercase or not.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>