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Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL)
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Exorcise "zero-dimensional" arrays (Was: Re: Should array_length() Return NULL)  (Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>)
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>> 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

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