public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Philip Yarra <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Richard Huxton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Suggested patch to plpgsql docs (7.4beta)
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:20:42 +1000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:11 am, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Richard Huxton wrote:
> > Addition of one paragraph to the end of section 39.7.3.4 "FOR (integer
> > variant)"
> >
> > Note that this is basically a WHILE loop, so if the lower bound is larger
> > than the upper bound the loop never executes it's contents:
> >   FOR i IN 10..1 LOOP
> >     RAISE NOTICE ''I do not raise a notice %'',i;
> >   END LOOP;
> >
> > I wasn't sure and had to check, so I assume others might find this useful
> > too.
>
> I figured everyone would assume that.  I know of no language that will
> execute a loop listed as 10 ... 1.

Basic on my first computer suppported it, though the syntax was 

FOR $i in 10 TO 1 STEP -1
	PRINT $i
NEXT 

I think it is worth stating explicitly. The apostrophe in "it's" is incorrect 
though.

Regards, Philip Yarra.

view thread (6+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Suggested patch to plpgsql docs (7.4beta)
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox