Christian Moe <[email protected]> writes:

Your attention to detail and correctness is admirable!

> But are there further refinements, while we're at it? Is "A single
> uppercase alphabetic character between A and Z" clear and correct enough
> now?

How about we say "A through Z" instead of "between A and Z" to highlight
the fact that the range is inclusive?

> In English it's fairly conventional to use "alphabetic character" means
> a letter of the /English/ alphabet. But as Ihor pointed out, there are
> different alphabets, so it's ambiguous at the least, and on the syntax
> page we should be careful.

While "uppercase English alphabetic character" is mouthful, it is 100%
precise, which is desirable.

A random bag of other ideas: We could also say "letter" instead of
"alphabetic character", especially when `char' type is irrelevant or
clear from context.  Also, "capital" is often written instead of
"uppercase", as in "capital letter", which reads rather smoothly.

Rudy
-- 
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--- George Santayana, Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense, 1905

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