On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:02:47 -0700, Alex Martelli wrote: > 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).
*slaps head* Of course it does! D'oh! We always used to write array[1..n] for an n item array, which is a convention, not enforced by the compiler. -- Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
