Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Ever since Pascal existed, the syntax has been "array[lower..upper] of sometype" -- no default value for lower (neither 0 nor 1 nor other). Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
