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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
- Path: sparky!uunet!wrkgrp!ets
- From: ets@wrkgrp.COM (Edward T Spire)
- Subject: Re: PARSE wishlist/brainstorming
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.153924.2257@wrkgrp.COM>
- Organization: The Workstation Group
- References: <9209030850.AA04682@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:39:24 GMT
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- ophof@SERVER.UWINDSOR.CA (Scott Ophof) 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*...
-
- Yes, Humans and REXX programmers (unlike Mathematicians and
- C programmers) naturally start counting with 1, not 0.
-
- -Ed
-
- ps: Scott's posting appears to attribute the above arguement to Anders
- (or maybe to myself). The above arguement comes from another
- member of the ANSI committee.
-