Re: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] Error in documentation on arrays

[Nicholas Mills]

>I was taught that zero is defined to be positive.

Interesting, I was taught that positive numbers are strictly greater than zero. Zero itself is unsigned (except in some floating point representations).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_%28mathematics%29#Sign_of_zero
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Nonnegative.html

-Nick

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi.

Thanks for the patch.

> -many elements.  Usually, an index in the array must be a positive integer.
> +many elements.  Usually, an index in the array must be a non-negative integer.

I was taught that zero is defined to be positive.  Is that not how
people are taught math these days?

I haven't decided yet if I should make this change...

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:10:17 -0500
> From: Nicholas Mills <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [bug-gawk] [PATCH] Error in documentation on arrays

>
> All,
>
> I have corrected a minor error in the documentation on arrays. Please see
> the attached patch.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Nick Mills
> Graduate Research Assistant
> Computer Engineering
> Clemson University, Clemson, SC