[ale] Introduction

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:25:18AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>No, character - character = numeric:
>>
>>intval = '5' - '2';
> 
> 
> I'm confused... this is exactly what Java does.

No, the code you provided was:

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

What that does is get the numeric value and then subtract numeric from 
numeric.

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Until later, Geoffrey