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- From: magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch (Magnus Kempe)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.090943@lglsun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 08:09:43 GMT
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- Timothy M. Schreyer asks:
- : ... why do string indices start at 1? :-)
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- A closet Pythagorean in the Ada design team got rational arithmetic
- into the compilers; similarly, a disciple of Parmenides strove to
- find the one in the many and upheld that what is not, is not. Thus,
- String indices start at 1, not in the void of 0.
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- Ada is the language for those who have love of wise programming, a
- derived type of philosophers.
- --
- Magnus Kempe "I have sworn ... eternal hostility to every form of
- magnus@lglsun.epfl.ch tyranny over the mind of man." -- Thomas Jefferson
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