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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.

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