[TUHS] Array index history

Pete Turnbull pete at dunnington.plus.com
Fri Jun 9 12:14:20 AEST 2017


On 09/06/2017 02:19, Toby Thain wrote:
> I wrote a lot of BBC BASIC. DIM(9) allocates ten elements, 0..9, 

Yes, all versions (of which there are at least nine, going back to 
1981), and so too does its predecessor, Atom BASIC.  Indexing from zero 
was the norm in 1970s/1980s BASICs.

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Pete
Pete Turnbull



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