In <p062408aec95813a3450b@[192.168.1.11]>, on 01/15/2011
at 10:32 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said:
>Computer Arrays are OFFSETS
No. Subscripts are labels, and need not begin from zero or even be
contiguous.
>Thus they start at 0
The Don't in Fortran. They Don't in Algol. They don't in PL/I.
>It also makes locating them easier
No. For a contiguous array, it's easy to locate an element regardless
of the subscript origin.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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