: Many people use code like
:
: if isUpper c
: c := toLower c
:
: thinking that "if toLower c != c then isUpper c is true". If you just
: look at the categories, you miss some characters.
Thomas> This code seems quite strange to me. c := toLower c should be
Thomas> enough and should always be more efficient than the above
Thomas> quirk. So in cases where a lower case is required and the above
Thomas> code really doesn't work it's that code which should be considered
Thomas> buggy.
I recall that this code fragment was used for implementations that were flawed
in some way. I know many earlier versions of SunOS had this problem.
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