"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
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>
> Zero-based arrays are something that most programmers would be familiar
> with.  I think the assumption was that anyone using arrays probably either
> has experience in another language or soon will, so they were kept zero-based
> for the familiarity factor.  I can think of only a few obsolete dialects of
> BASIC that use 1-based arrays.
>

Heh - the built in scripting in lang. in the db our company sells uses 1-based
arrays. I'm always coming a cropper when I switch to other langs.

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