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Mean while Pascal side steps this* entire aesthetic debate by letting you define the index range of an array as you see fit and did so years before UNIX convinc
by Avshalom 13y ago
Mean while Pascal side steps this* entire aesthetic debate by letting you define the index range of an array as you see fit and did so years before UNIX convinced everyone that C was somehow a good idea.
*'this' referring to the debate in thread, not in the article.
- lmm 13y agoWhich is a terrible idea. It's like sidestepping the debate over whether to use spaces or tabs by using both.
- mtdewcmu 13y agoC is spartan with syntax, and you could accomplish much the same thing with a macro. Of course, in C++ you could define your own arrays with their own indexing scheme.