On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:13:21 -0500, Bob H. wrote:
>"Ron Parker" <ron### [at] povrayorg> wrote in message
>news:slr### [at] fwicom...
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:40:14 -0500, Bob H. wrote:
>> >They will become whole number positive integers 1 to N, at least from
>what I
>> >understand.  I was just looking into them once again and realized they
>are
>> >initialized as 1 to N yet are accessed as 0 to N-1.  I thought I recalled
>a
>> >discussion about that before and whether it should be changed.  Not sure.
>>
>> I don't recall seeing any subscripts in the initializer.  What do you mean
>> by "initialized as 1 to N"?
>
>Sorry, I don't know the terminology at all but I meant array[subscript]
>where subscript is initialized using 1 to N and then becomes 0 to N-1 when
>later accessed.
>Or do I have that all wrong?

I think you do.  When you initialize it, you say

#declare foo=array[size] {...}

Notice that that thing there is the size, not the last index, so it's not 
actually a contradiction.

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.

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