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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: how to print an array range?
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"Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org> writes:

> I know I am doing something silly here.

Or maybe the language designers did something silly.
Why didn't they make the index subtype Positive (or
maybe Natural) instead of Integer?  Is it important
to allow negative index values?

- Bob