Actually Niklaus Wirth did the best thing a long time ago with Pascal ... let the programmer decide the index range for arrays (although he screwed up making t

Actually Niklaus Wirth did the best thing a long time ago with Pascal ... let the programmer decide the index range for arrays (although he screwed up making the size of the array part of the type). K&R made the best decision for C since it is the most transparent for the hardware.