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From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Array index history
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 15:03:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016301d2dfc0$b098e250$11caa6f0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23afd785-e260-75ca-5c46-77c62fbcf3cd@kilonet.net>


> Why go to the trouble of decrementing the index to retreive the first entry?

What makes you think that you have to decrement the index.    Don't get sucked up in the idiotic C implementation of an array.   Arrays can be efficiently implemented no matter where the index starts.




  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-07 19:03 UTC|newest]

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2017-06-07 12:56             ` shawn wilson
2017-06-07 13:16               ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-07 13:20               ` arnold
2017-06-07 13:50                 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-06-07 14:02                   ` arnold
2017-06-08 11:28                     ` Christian Neukirchen
2017-06-08 14:56                       ` shawn wilson
2017-06-07 14:58                   ` Tony Finch
2017-06-07 23:57                     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-06-07 16:31                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-06-08  0:47                 ` Bakul Shah
2017-06-07 17:59               ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-06-07 18:29               ` Clem Cole
2017-06-07 18:46                 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-06-07 19:03                   ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-06-07 19:15                     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-06-07 19:49                       ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-08  1:58                       ` ARJANEN Loïc Jean David
2017-06-08 13:49                       ` Random832
2017-06-08 13:55                         ` Arthur Krewat
2017-06-08 18:41                       ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-06-08  2:45                     ` Robert Swierczek
2017-06-08  4:05                       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-06-08  6:19                       ` Peter Jeremy
2017-06-08  7:02                         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-06-08 13:53                         ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-08  2:27 Doug McIlroy
2017-06-08 12:49 ` William Cheswick
2017-06-08 12:56   ` Michael Kjörling
2017-06-08 13:45     ` Dan Cross
2017-06-08 13:57       ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-10 21:08     ` Nemo
2017-06-08 15:04   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-06-08 15:09     ` William Pechter
2017-06-08 16:53     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-06-08 20:17     ` Larry McVoy
2017-06-09  0:03     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-06-08  9:16 Richard Tobin
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2017-06-08 22:28 ` Johnny Billquist
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2017-06-08 18:20 ` David
2017-06-08 18:55   ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-09 21:21   ` Steve Johnson
2017-06-09 21:52     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-06-08 22:29 ` Johnny Billquist
2017-06-08 23:16   ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-08 23:41     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-06-09 15:12       ` Random832
2017-06-09 16:30         ` Ron Natalie
2017-06-09  0:21     ` Johnny Billquist
2017-06-09  0:25     ` Pete Turnbull
2017-06-09  1:19       ` Toby Thain
2017-06-09  2:14         ` Pete Turnbull

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