From: Giles Alexander <giles.alexander@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T13:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: The Pebble in the Ruby Shoe

On 7/18/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote:
> I wonder how C got saddled with a fixed lower limit of 0 then. It must
> have been a simplification somewhere in the chain from Algol - CPL -
> BCPL - B - C.

In C the expression array[n] is actually just syntactic sugar for
*(array + n). Literally. I haven't tried in years, but the following
is supposed to be legitimate: n[array]. Great for obfuscating code.

If that's how you're going to perform array lookups, then your array
indices have to start from 0.

Giles