[ale] Introduction

[Fletch]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Vinson <vinson.lists at charter.net> writes:


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    Jason> Maybe i'm misunderstanding the problem, but are you saying
    Jason> that this is annoying:

    Jason> Character.getNumericValue('z')-Character.getNumericValue('a')

    Jason> Lengthy yes... but doable (and not that hard!)

*cough*Perl*cough*

ord('z') - ord('a')

*double cough*Ruby*double cough*

?z - ?a


Make the simple things simple and the hard things possible . . .

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