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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:50:20 EDT
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- From: Scott Ophof <ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA>
- Subject: Re: PARSE wishlist/brainstorming
- Comments: To: REXXLIST@uga.cc.uga.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9209022327.AA15469@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>; from "Edward T Spire" at
- Sep 2, 92 4:06 pm
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- On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:06:05 GMT Edward T Spire said:
- >ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T Spire) writes:
- >: anders@lise4.lise.unit.no (Anders Christensen) writes:
- ...
- >: One of the negatives that bothers me is that the customary
- >: convention uses STEM.0 to hold the dimension. Whoever
- >: invented that was probably not a mathematician nor a C
- >: programmer. Element zero of an array is wanted by some
- >: people.
-
- I *like* the imho uncomplicated idea of an array starting at 1 with
- the number of elements in element 0. I find it a quite UNsurprising
- setup. The concept of "first element is number 0" bothers *me*...
- And the few times I've needed to start at 0, I did the following:
-
- Do I = 0 to element.0
- J = J + 1
- result = do_something_with_element.J
- End I
-
-
- Regards.
- $$/
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