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- Subject: Re: The "i" in "ipairs" (was re: Newbie: ipairs() for tables with non integer keys)
- From: Steve Heller <steve@...>
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:42:46 -0600
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:35:55 -0000, "Paul Hudson" <phudson@pobox.com>
wrote:
>
>> In Fortran, variables starting with
>> letters from "i" to "q" (or "o"?) were integers by default
>
>Neither starting at "i" nor ending at "q" or "o" :)
>
>"j" .. "l" were integer by default.
>
>Hence the old joke "God is real -- unless declared integer"
I'm pretty sure that it was "I" through "M", at least in Fortran II,
which was the one I started on.
Steve
