<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/04/13 05:30, Tom Lane wrote:<br /></div><blockquote
cite="mid:16677.1365006659@sss.pgh.pa.us"type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">Zero
asthe 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.
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Fortran ... Basic ... actually I'd have thought that zero was a
minority position. Fashions change I guess.
regards, tom lane
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