9 Jun
2017
9 Jun
'17
10:30 p.m.
I stand corrected. I pulled up the original typewritten Dartmouth BASIC manual and
indeed the indices start at zero (though many coding examples don't write the zeroth
element). By default arrays were 11 elements long. You could change that with the DIM
statement. Yes, the value given to DIM is the highest index making a DIM A(20) defining
a 21 element array.
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Array index history
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017, at 19:41, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Ron Natalie wrote:
In fact, they give you eleven elements from 0 to 10, which means that code which *uses*
1..10 is compatible but wastes some space.
DIM X(10) gave you ten elements from 1...10
All M$ dialects that I am aware of start at 0 by default.