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  3. March 2015

Re: AW: RPG String Compare - Bug or not?

Maybe not "totally silly". In other countries, the first floor of a building is considered the ground floor, and what we call the 2nd floor is the 1st floor.

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On 3/31/2015 12:55 AM, j.beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
One could also argue that RPG is a human-oriented language, whereas C-like
languages are more machine-oriented. That the first element of an array is
numbered 0 makes sense from a machine point of view, but is totally silly
from a human point of view. In that same vein it makes perfect sense to
consider trailing spaces in a character variable irrelevant.

Joep Beckeringh




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