From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
Date: 6 Jan 93 02:59:29 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jan6.025929.18871@seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In article <1993Jan5.220007.26218@gvl.unisys.com> schrey@prc.unisys.com writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.033842.10112@seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Micha
el Feldman) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>|> >
>|> 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 tha
n
>|> 1..128.
>|>
> All right... then why do string indices start at 1? :-)
>
Beats me. Anyone out there have an authoritative answer?
Mike Feldman
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