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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: towards a faster isdigit()
Summary: oh, really?
Message-ID: <1991May9.220338.3763@ico.isc.com>
Date: 9 May 91 22:03:38 GMT
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wicklund@intellistor.com (Tom Wicklund) writes:
> 1)  Numeric digits aren't adjacent character codes in all character
> sets (though I can't think of an example where this isn't true off
> hand).

This seems like a weak statement!  If there exists such a character set, it
ought to be possible to discover it, shouldn't it?  (Translation: reality
check!)
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Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind.