In <[email protected]>, on
01/18/2011
at 05:12 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> said:
>In passing, I was unpleasantly surprised to find that oorexx supports
>only 1-origin subscripting for its array class, thus making it very
>difficult to move from the more general but slower and arguably less
>rigorous use of stems for collections that would otherwise be a good
>match for arrays. To say nothing of the complete ideological
>incompatibility with C/C++ thus created, or at least
>demonstrated.
I don't care about ideological incompatibility with C, but for a
language descended from PL/I to have fixed lower bounds in array
subscripts is quaint.
--
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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