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Date: 5 Jan 93 22:00:07 GMT
From: gvls1!oak!schrey@louie.udel.edu  (Timothy M. Schreyer)
Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
Message-ID: <1993Jan5.220007.26218@gvl.unisys.com>
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In article <1992Dec30.033842.10112@seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michae
l Feldman) writes:
|> In article <238@trident.datasys.swri.edu> tim@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Timo
thy 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.
|> 
   All right... then why do string indices start at 1? :-)

     Tim
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