Me learn to count (one, two, free..)

From: Evenbit (nbaker2328_at_charter.net)
Date: 05/30/04

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    Date: 30 May 2004 04:59:54 -0700

    [This is a response to Frank's message but since I'm away from home
    for the Holiday weekend {you all have a safe one now...remember the
    troops protecting the Home Land of this greate world...Hail Bush...and
    all that Jazz}, I have to resort to using Google and Google is being
    rather cantancerous this weekend for some reason and won't let me
    reply directly to the thread; it is also being more than the usual 6
    to 9 hours behind, oh well...]

    FK> Well, I don't know why you're calling
    FK> 'em "digits", but here's an
    FK> interesting question... What constitutes "up"?

    Well, I used "digits" because that made for a cheap funny. Also kind
    of subtly hinting that a character can be refered to as a 'digit' as
    well -- I mean, why should numerals get all the glory? ;-) Coders
    can label their variables however they please...as long as they don't
    get confused in the process..

    Well, aside from an erect digit, "up" refers to uppercase letters and
    nothing more. [continued below]

    FK> The original quote referred to the
    FK> use of the shift key (actually
    FK> referred to a post on the ConvInc
    FK> developers list, originally - kind of
    FK> an "in group joke" for Beth...) But
    FK> then I said "uppercase
    FK> characters"... There's potentially a
    FK> difference - does ' "FILE" ' have
    FK> four instances to count, or six? What
    FK> if I'd typed it with capslock on?
    FK> Only two uses of the shiftkey, then...
    FK> (I don't think there's any way to
    FK> deftermine whether capslock was used,
    FK> after the fact... is there?) This
    FK> may need to be specified more precisely.

    To me, ' "FILE" ' would be four instances because the capital letters
    are the only 'shifted items' that have a semantic reason to be
    counted. Sure, on the US-English keyboard, we have to press the SHIFT
    key to get at the quotation mark but that doesn't mean that it is a
    'capital' quotation mark compared to a 'lowercase' quotation mark. In
    other words, it doesn't matter what process you use to get there, it
    is the outcome that matters.

    Of course, the preceding presumes our proggy is processing a file or
    clipboard contents. If the proggy is responding to immediate events
    (like a word processor or a code editor), then one might decide to
    take those SHIFTKEY and CAPSLOCK thingies into account if it proves
    beneficial to do so (e.g. for RotAsm-style shortcuts or hypertext
    markups).

    L8r
    Nathan

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