Re: CAPS again

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:20:53 +0100

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Hi,

> The idea of "Pascal-like languages" is: Don't do at runtime, what
> you can already do at compile-time. Type-safety-checks can ALWAYS be
> done at runtime.

you are quite right - I was too loose with my language. What I really
mean is that the specification of CAP should not lead to an undefined
result, because it forces the programmer to include run-time checks of
the input. So the efficiency of the CAP implementation is buried under
the inefficiency of the range checks.

Every possible CHAR maps to an upper case equivalent, even if it is a
map back to itself. So, a->A, b->B, space->space, {([at]})nowhere.xy
reason why this should not be so, and no reason why it should be inefficient
to implement.

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Regards,
 Bob
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