[ale] Introduction

[Jason Day]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:58:39PM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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')

That wasn't me, I think it was Jason Vinson.  Instead of that, you could
just do this:

int diff = '5' - '2';

And diff becomes 3.
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