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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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I'm with Ioannis on this one...  I fail to see how p[-1] is any less an
index on an array than somearray[1] is.  They're using the exact same
compile-time methods to get to where their data is, and if you really
want to use -1 as an index, it's allowing you to do exactly that.  Is
there something magical about being able to declare it yourself that
makes it a "proper" index?  Or would you just rather see Perl-style
negative indices?  (which would make no sense in the way I've seen
people describe using negative indices in this discussion)