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Article #4097Re: 0-based/1-based arrays
From: Uday Kurkure
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 18:10
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1988 18:10
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In article <942@micomvax.UUCP>, ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
> The question is, I believe, does the 'structure' fit naturally with the problem
> you are trying to solve when using the array.
>
> Sometimes 0-based is what you want, sometime 1-based is what you want,
> sometimes n, or -n or etc is what you want!
In Mathematics, zero means nothing, void. In computer science, zero
has a meaning depending on the the context. There exists a memory location
at zero address. As long as there are addresses starting from zero, 0-based/
1-based arrays would be a matter of taste.
..Uday
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!prls!mips!uday From: uday@mips.COM (Uday Kurkure) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: 0-based/1-based arrays Message-ID: <1886@gumby.mips.COM> Date: 17 Mar 88 18:10:49 GMT References: <7161@sol.ARPA> <2740@mmintl.UUCP> <4343@june.cs.washington.edu> <942@micomvax.UUCP> Lines: 17