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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Auto variable with sizeof == 0
Message-ID: <5299@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 10:59:43 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.5299
Posted: Thu Feb  5 10:59:43 1987
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <5258@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote:
>>[for automatic array declarations of the form `int a[];' valid subscripts
>>are in the range [0..0).

In article <409@mipos3.UUCP> pinkas@mipos3.UUCP (Israel Pinkas) writes:
>Wrong.

Not so.

>There are no valid subscripts to the array.

That is what I said.  The valid subscripts are in the range [0..0).
Perhaps you would prefer the [0..0[ form?  (I always thought that
form particularly vile.)  The notation [0..0) means the half-open
interval between zero and zero, i.e., the null set.
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