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From: uday@mips.COM (Uday Kurkure)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: 0-based/1-based arrays
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Date: 17 Mar 88 18:10:49 GMT
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In article <942@micomvax.UUCP>, ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
> The question is, I believe, does the 'structure' fit naturally with the problem
> you are trying to solve when using the array.
> 
> Sometimes 0-based is what you want, sometime 1-based is what you want,
> sometimes n, or -n or etc is what you want!


   In Mathematics, zero means nothing, void. In computer science, zero
   has a meaning depending on the the context. There exists a memory location
   at zero address. As long as there are addresses starting from zero, 0-based/
   1-based arrays would be a matter of taste.


                                               ..Uday