From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Array Help?
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:35:27 -0700
Date: 2012-02-29T11:35:27-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jilr5h$122g$1@adenine.netfront.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wcck435wrj2.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
On 02/29/2012 09:09 AM, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
> Right, and this is a rich source of bugs. You usually want
> arrays to start at 1, or sometimes 0 (assuming the index type
> is a signed integer type, which is almost always the case
> for unconstrained arrays).
My 1st programming job, using FORTRAN 66, dealt with tree-ring data. We had data
from 1600 to 1970. Calculating the correct array index for a year was a rich
source of bugs for us; if we'd been able to have the lower bounds be 1600 rather
than 1 life would have been a lot easier.
--
Jeff Carter
"Sir Robin the not-quite-so-brave-as-Sir-Lancelot,
who had nearly fought the Dragon of Angnor,
who nearly stood up to the vicious Chicken of Bristol,
and who had personally wet himself at the
Battle of Badon Hill."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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2012-02-28 20:15 Array Help? Will
2012-02-28 20:47 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-02-28 22:11 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-28 23:09 ` Will
2012-02-29 0:24 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-28 20:50 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-28 21:33 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-29 0:27 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-29 8:00 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-29 8:48 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-29 0:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-29 16:09 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 16:50 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-02-29 18:24 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 19:45 ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-29 20:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-29 21:27 ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-29 23:06 ` Robert A Duff
2012-03-02 13:45 ` stefan-lucks
2012-03-07 23:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 11:20 ` stefan-lucks
2012-03-09 2:02 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-09 8:48 ` stefan-lucks
2012-03-09 21:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-15 2:55 ` BrianG
2012-03-15 7:46 ` stefan-lucks
2012-02-29 20:07 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-02-29 23:15 ` Robert A Duff
2012-03-01 8:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-01 14:06 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 20:47 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-29 22:23 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 23:27 ` Robert A Duff
2012-03-01 0:53 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-03-01 7:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2012-03-01 14:03 ` Robert A Duff
2012-03-08 0:11 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 0:08 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-02-29 23:30 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-29 18:35 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2012-02-29 22:59 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 23:51 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-01 3:03 ` Robert A Duff
2012-02-29 20:40 ` Adam Beneschan
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