[ale] Introduction

[Geoffrey]

Aditya Srinivasan wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fletch wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>>"Jason" == Jason Vinson <vinson.lists at charter.net> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>[...]
>>>
>>>    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')
>>
>>No, no, character - character = integer... :)
> 
> 
> And why is the ability to do that a Good Thing (tm)? :)

Lazy programming.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey