From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Array-like object indexing
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:49:20 GMT
Date: 2002-08-19T19:49:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D614BE2.CE0F0730@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ajrh2j$1dce2m$1@ID-151722.news.dfncis.de
Ryan wrote:
> separately :). The STL name did always confuse me (Why is
> My_String.end() actually *past* the last character of My_String?).
Because C starts counting at zero, and once you make the convention that
ranges are half-open, including the first index and excluding the last, then
a bunch of stuff works a lot better.
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2002-08-18 0:22 Array-like object indexing Ryan
2002-08-19 3:55 ` R. Tim Coslet
2002-08-19 5:36 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-19 19:33 ` Ryan
2002-08-19 19:49 ` Darren New [this message]
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