9 Jun
2017
9 Jun
'17
5:41 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
All M$ dialects that I am aware of start at 0 by default. Later ones have
OPTION BASE to change this or let you do DIM X(5 TO 7) if you want.
-uso.
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