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What I Hate About Your Programming Language | |
| Subject: | C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays | |
| Date: | 2003-05-14 13:15:40 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Response to: C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays
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| Because it's not always just a compile time fix. If a variable is used in the index, the 'minus one' must be done at runtime. In math intensive stuff, this can be devastating. The best thing I think is a 1-based default, and an option to revert to 0-base on specific arrays. | ||
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C, C++, Java, maybe others - zeroth element arrays
2003-05-24 06:26:13 anonymous2 [View]
With one dimensional array there is simple fix. When you have elem_t a[N], indexed from 0 to N-1, then elem_t *b = (a - 1) is indexed from 1 to N.
