Re: Java Indexing- Historical question

Eric Sosman wrote:
Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:27:07 -0800, Tom McGlynn wrote:

This is an interesting and somewhat religious topic. I'm fairly
agnostic on the choice between the two. Nor am I sure the benefits of
allowing the user to specify the bounds would outweigh the cost of
ambiguity in understanding what an array index means in an arbitrary
context. [

The ability to specify upper and lower bounds is probably more useful in engineering and scientific programs than in commercial code and processing logic. [...]

long[] endOfYearBalancesThisDecade = new long[2001:2010];

(Imaginary syntax, of course.)

= new long[2000:2009];

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Lew
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