[erlang-questions] Erlang 3000?

[Johnny Billquist]

Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2008, at 1:44 pm, Håkan Stenholm wrote:
>> Conditionals that have more than 2 branches where none of them  
>> branch on
>> patterns - e.g. something like the to_upper code below:
>>
>> to_upper_char(C) when is_integer(C) ->
>>  if
>>     $a =< C, C =< $z       -> C - 32;
>>     16#E0 =< C, C =< 16#F6 -> C - 32;
>>     16#F8 =< C, C =< 16#FE -> C - 32;
>>     true -> C
>>  end.
> 
> If this is supposed to convert ISO Latin 1 characters
> to upper case, it's wrong.  (In at least two different
> ways, both of which are left as an exercise for the
> reader.)  Code for such purposes simply shouldn't be
> written by hand these days, but should be generated by
> some sort of script from the (relevant portion of the)
> Unicode data base.  As such, whether it's written using
> 'case', 'if', or embedded Intercal should be of no interest.

??? That's a perfectly correct translation from lowercase to uppercase 
for Latin-1.
Unicode is something else.

Or is there just some bug in the code as such that I fail to see?

	Johnny