I want an adverb that will convert 1-byte-characters to their numeric
equivalent then operate the verb on them. For instance I want to be able to
easily test 'c'> 'a' or '5' < '6' which gives domain errors (although 'c' =
'c' does not!)
So I wrote this adverb:
NB. adverb that converts characters
NB. into their numeric equivalents
NB. then operates the given verb on them
NB. e.g. 'z'> CHAR 'a'
NB. should return 1
CHAR =: 1 :0
t1=: a.i.x
t2=: a.i.y
t1 u t2
)
but...
'z'> CHAR 'a'
|domain error
| 'z' >CHAR'a'
t1
33
t2
97
t1{a.
!
t2{a.
a
I am missing something obvious (again!)
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