Re: CAPS again

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:41:39 +0100

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Hi,


> I still think that it's the caller's business to assure that the
> arguments he calls a procedure with are checked before he calls that
> procedure.

surely one of the major reasons for using Pascal-like languages is
type-safety, which drastically reduces the need for such run-time
checks by the programmers.

It seems to me that CAP( x ) should return x where x does not have
a corresponding capital letter, or at least consistently return the
same thing, eg 0X.

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Regards,
 Bob
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