On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:06:16 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
> 
>> Maybe the first unis that did this figured people were Pascal-based
>> rather than C-based.  (Pascal, IIRC, starts arrays at '1', C starts at
>> '0').
> 
> As *I* remember, Pascal arrays start at whatever index you tell them to
> start at. (E.g, you can make the first index be 17 if you want...)
> 
> VAR stuff : ARRAY [17..21] OF INT;

I was thinking positions for a string.  In Pascal, using the string 
"abcdef", position 1 is "a".  In C, it's position 0.

Jim

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