A Date With Tim Peters...

[Tres Seaver]

In article <ltso1lw6mg.fsf at asfast.com>, Lloyd Zusman  <ljz at asfast.com> wrote:
>jlouder at wfu.edu (Joe  Louderback) writes:
>
>> Phil Mayes (nospam at bitbucket.com) wrote:
>> > David N. Welton wrote in message <87puwpg7kp.fsf at freddy.page.street>...
>> > 
>> > > Doesn't the new millenium actually start in 2001?
>> >
>> > Only for FORTRAN programmers.  Python and C programmers, being zero-based,
>> > get to celebrate a year earlier.
>> 
>> To be fair, we Fortran programmers can start arrays with any index, so even
>> the 4 BC problem can be solved ;-)
>
>But can you cause FORTRAN to think that there is no integer between
>-1 and +1?  :)

Heh, I recall fondly one machine where +0 and -0 were different, so why not?

(A Cyber mainframe, ones-complement, if the faded label on the card deck box
isn't fooling me :)

A-zero-by-any-other-sign'ly,

Tres.
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