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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/07
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Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00
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John Herro said

<<Absolutely!  I've often warned my students not to assume that the index of a str
ing starts at 1, and even have that warning in my Ada Tutor program.  Then in my
 haste I made that error myself in the
above posting!
>.

Of course it is quite reasonable in a given environment to have the convention
that aoll functions returning strings always return a low bound of 1, and then
to count on this (the string packages in Annex A work this way).