On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:34:46 -0700, Dan Bishop wrote: > On Apr 14, 10:55 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The FORTRAN family had started as 1-based (F95, and Ada, now allow >> for each array to have its own "base" => x : array (-10..10) of float). >> Pascal, I forget... > > Pascal allows arbitrary array bases. It's where Ada got the idea.
It does? Since when? When I was being taught Pascal at University (20 years ago...) Pascal always started indices at 1. We used to joke you could tell musicians who were trained as C programmers from those who were Pascal programmers because they did sound checks "Testing, 0 1 2". -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
