I think you're muddling dynamic and dimensioned arrays - a dynamic array can't 
have an element 0 :-)

Sounds like somebody, when writing jBase, saw the "feature" of <-1> and thought 
they'd be clever with <0>.

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mats Carlid
Sent: 19 August 2008 14:53
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [U2] Dynamic Array oddity very useful

That is then flavour  dependent  -  in  information flavour there
is a zero element , that's  where the overflowing elements go
( if any)  in a matparse.

-- mats

Martin Phillips skrev:
> Hi Dennis,
>
>> So A<0> = X  is a way quicker way of writing A = X : @fm : A
>
> I'm not sure that this is a safe assumption. I have taken a quick look
> at the documentation for various mv products and they tend not to
> define what will happen.
>
> Trying your example with UV does not produce the result that you quote.
>
> I think that the real issue here is that there is no field zero. It is
> up to the different products to determine what they do in this case as
> there doesn't appear to be an agreed behaviour.
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