Re: Enum's start at 0?

[eachus@mitre-bedford.arpa (Robert I. Eachus)]

In article <1993Jan6.025929.18871@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael 
Feldman) writes:

   In article <1993Jan5.220007.26218@gvl.unisys.com> schrey@prc.unisys.com writ
es:
   > >   All right... then why do string indices start at 1? :-)

   > Beats me. Anyone out there have an authoritative answer?

   Is there such a thing?  (I assume you don't want me to point to
Appendix C(17) and say because...)  There was a lot of debate on this
in 1981-1982, but as I remember it, it was more concerned with
replacing the subtypes NONNEGATIVE and NATURAL with the more standard
NATURAL and POSITIVE.  Once these were changed STRING changed to
match.

    I guess the real answer is that there was always an expectation
that for "normal" strings 'LENGTH = 'LAST and this requires that
STRINGs be based at one.



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					Robert I. Eachus

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