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tomjen3
on June 21, 2011
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Edsger Dijkstra's note on starting array indices a...
One student group at the University of Aalborg designed a language which, among other things, allowed array indexes to be floating point numbers.
So yeah, the array would start at 0,5.
gaius
on June 22, 2011
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I bet it wasn't an array at all, but a hashtable.
tomjen3
on June 22, 2011
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It was, but they did convert it to an integer on the implementation sides so 0.2 and 0.3535 would be the same element.
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So yeah, the array would start at 0,5.