Re: Char type verification

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org>]

KE wrote:
> 
> First of all, I'm grateful that you've gone to all that length to
> explain to me that this is not the most efficient way to do this, etc.
> etc. I am familiar with how the actual "isupper" standard function is
> implemented, but I didn't want to clutter up the example with a huge
> 256-item array with 1s and 0s in it, making it even more obscure.
> (Actually, the standard C library uses bit masking to signal different
> character types, but I guess had I asked for that, I'd get the first
> fascicule of the Ada standard from my valuable coder friends here :-D)

I trust I demonstrated in an earlier post that such an array, in Ada, 
doesn't have to clutter up the code.

> In other words, I wanted to keep things simple.

In which case, I have to wonder why you cluttered up your example with 
all the unnecessary conversions and stuff.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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