On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:56:30 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> 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.
> 
> Probably.
> 
> IIRC, in Turbo Pascal, position 0 is the length. (And since it's a
> single byte, no strings longer than 255 characters...)

Yep, Turbo Pascal stored the length rather than using the C method of 
null-terminating the string.

Jim

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