10. Characters and Symbols

Characters

See also the description of comparison operations, which discuss the comparison of characters.

<character>	[Instantiable Class]

<character> is a subclass of <object>.

as-uppercase   character   =>  uppercase-character	[G.F. Method]

The <character> method on as-uppercase returns the upper-case equivalent for character. If character already is uppercase or does not exist in two cases, it is returned unchanged.

as-lowercase   character   =>  lowercase-character	[G.F. Method]

The <character> method on as-lowercase returns the lower-case equivalent for character. If character already is lowercase or does not exist in two cases, it is returned unchanged.

as   <integer> character   =>  integer	[G.F. Method]

This method on as returns a numeric equivalent for character. The integer returned is implementation dependent.

as   <character> integer   =>  character	[G.F. Method]

This method on as returns the character equivalent to integer. The meaning of integer is implementation dependent.