[ale] Introduction

[Geoffrey]

Jason Day wrote:
> 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.

Oops, sorry.

> Instead of that, you could
> just do this:
> 
> int diff = '5' - '2';
> 
> And diff becomes 3.

That works in java?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey