Re: contiguity of arrays

From: Richard Bos (rlb_at_hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:26:48 GMT

"E. Robert Tisdale" <E.Robert.Tisdale@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Joe Wright wrote:
>
> > If I couldn't access a[1][0] as b[2] I would be surprised, and annoyed.
>
> But you can.
>
> The *de facto* standard is as you describe it.
> No compiler developer would implement the standard *de jure*
> unless they were suicidal.

Or designing a _deliberately_ strict implementation, for example a
debugging compiler.

Richard

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