Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The "nearly an ASCII extension" assumption is so ubiquitous, think of
> (c >= '0') tests and similar. You really find it's worth mentioning?
Digits are a very special case, because the C standard (C89
onward) guarantees that they are in order and contiguous:
In both the source and execution basic character sets, the
value of each character after 0 in the above list of decimal
digits shall be one greater than the value of the previous.
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