| From: | Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz> |
| Cc: | Florian Pflug <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 16:21:38 |
| Message-ID: | CAFj8pRDrBjK4mTT-v+LYsaeo4XrZ+juV3t+Tqb4W2KpwB-JZ=Q@mail.gmail.com |
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>> Pavel
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>> ALOGOL 60 was zero based by default, as I remember deliberately
>> setting the lower bound to 1, I managed to avoid PASCAL and I only glanced
>> at ADA.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_%28array%29
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In Pascal and similar languages (Wirth family) is possible to define lower
bound - any value (like PL/pgSQL). Depends on a school - but lot of people
used 1.
I remember - it was one argument for in Pascal/C flame war.
Regards
Pavel
> Regards
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Pavel
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>> Cheers,
>> Gavin
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