... first second and third objects. Hence for high level languages a 1 based system makes the most sense. The first item has index 1, the second items has index 2 and the size of the list equals its Count. Banishes the off-by-one boundary problems.
It's probably what you are used to: I find that 0-based stuff has no off-by-one problems and I'm always finding that the 1-based strings in RB cause me no end of headaches. Of course, RB's always-do-the-for-loop-once is a pain in the *censored*, too. Craig _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
