"Paddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having more than one index start point would be a maintenance > nightmare best avoided.
Quite right. > (It can be done in Perl). When was the last time you used Perl? It was allowed in Perl 4 and earlier, because many Perl users were moving from Awk, which uses an array base of 1. Even then, having multiple index start points within a single program wasn't the idea; the idea was to allow programs originally written in Awk to be ported to Perl with minimal updating. It was deprecated as of 5.0 though - which was released in '94. It still works, for the sake of backwards compatibility, but its use in new code is highly discouraged. sherm-- -- Web Hosting by West Virginians, for West Virginians: http://wv-www.net Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
