From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Char ordering. References: <3224594886419204@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3224604020842522@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:20:11 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 1015615211 193.71.199.50 (Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:20:11 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 20:20:11 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:28169 * Jacek Generowicz | I guess I can't claim that this is going to become too tedious or | error-prone to write for, err, much longer alphabets :-) I "wrote" it using Emacs Lisp. For each line I evaluated (loop for i from ?V to ?Z do (insert (format "#\\%c " i))) You could have accomplished the same thing with #., but I think the code looks a lot better this way. Unfortunately, I typed in lower-case letters in one of the lines. | Having said that, the fact that the approach _is_ error-prone is | demonstrated by the line of lowercase chars in your code. I have added you to my do-not-help list. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.