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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 12:50:04 +0000
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Ioannis Vranos wrote:

> I have to say that for simple cases of things like that - in case we
> want to associate the x ranges with the y values - in C++ we "keep in
> mind" that [0] is for -5, etc, in the style:
[...]
> It isn't that incomprehensible if you are used to programming in C++.

Of course it's not "incomprehensible", for me it's inconvinient.

Once I actually got used to range types (these days I use them heavily,
although not so often with negative indices) it appears to me that I
sometimes just get confused when everything starts at zero, because
then I always have to keep in mind where and how a real world range is
biased.

This distracts me from the original problem I am trying to solve.


Vinzent.

-- 
worst case: The wrong assumption there actually is one.