From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:38:42 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Dec30.033842.10112@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <238@trident.datasys.swri.edu> tim@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Timothy
J. Barton) writes:
>Just curious, but is there a reason enumerated type's POS values
>start at 0 instead of 1?
>
Just like everything else in computing. ASCII characters, for example,
run from 0 to 127, not 128. You can represent 0..127 using one less bit than
1..128.
Mike Feldman
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