From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@softjar.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2017 02:21:05 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Array index history In-Reply-To: <026801d2e0ad$4e13cc10$ea3b6430$@ronnatalie.com> References: <026801d2e0ad$4e13cc10$ea3b6430$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <2F555C00-3202-4844-B0E8-862D016C47CF@softjar.se> All variants of BASIC by DEC does this. A few others I've tried also do. But since BASIC was not standardized for the longest time, it's hard to claim that BASIC really was one way or another. I have definitely not tried every dialect that has existed. Johnny Ron Natalie skrev: (9 juni 2017 01:16:48 CEST) > >> FORTRAN, yes. BASIC (which dialect might we be talking about?) >normally >actually start with 0. However, BASIC is weird, in that the DIM >statement is >actually specifying the highest usable index, and not the size of the >array. > >Eh? Not in any BASIC I ever used. They all started at 1. Can't >vouch >for the later Microsoft "visual" variants but the original 1970's era >BASIC >started with 1. >DIM X(10) gave you ten elements from 1...10 -- Skickat från min Android-enhet med K-9 Mail. Ursäkta min fåordighet. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: