[mercury-users] Mercury programmer required ;-)

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 11:05:26AM +1000, Warwick HARVEY wrote:
> This version looks far less daunting, but has the drawback that
> people will probably criticise it for its lack of efficiency (I mean,
> *searching* the string for each character?

How about using a map from character to rot13 character instead of a
string?  Should be much more efficient, and, I would expect, more
natural as well.

I still think doing maths on the character codes is the easiest,
fastest, and clearest solution, though.  Probably the nicest language
for writing this application is sh (invoking tr).

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