May 24, 2011
7:19 a.m.
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
Bruce Leban writes: > and the I've always read the leading zero to mean 'this is a > number'.
That's precisely Nick's point in suggesting it!
Indeed :) Still, I've come around to the point of view that the simplest and clearest way to write it is simply "ord('x')", and if that is in a time-critical inner loop, save the value in a named variable. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia