| From: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Brendan Jurd <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL) |
| Date: | 2013-04-03 18:53:05 |
| Message-ID: | 515C7A91.8030700@archidevsys.co.nz |
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On 04/04/13 05:30, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Zero as the default lower bound is consistent with most languages
>>> (especially the common ones like C, C++, Java, & Python), in fact
>>> I don't remember any language where that is not the case (ignoring
>>> SQL) - and I've written programs in about 20 languages.
> Fortran ... Basic ... actually I'd have thought that zero was a
> minority position. Fashions change I guess.
>
> regards, tom lane
I had forgotten the indexing in BASIC & FORTRAN, I now recall COBOL's
TABLE's were equivalent to arrays and they started at one.
Cheers,
Gavin
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