OpenEuphoria

Re: EOF and GOTO and 0th array element

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Aug 22, 2002
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On  0, Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > 3.  in BASIC an array can be created with 0th (zeroth?) element in any
> > dimension, but I don't see how you can do that in a sequence.  Can one
> > set up a Euphoric equivalent to such an element in a sequence?
> 
> No. Euphoria uses a 1-based index philosophy. The first element in a series
> is always 1.
> 
> Oh, except for routine_id().

Yes, routine_id() starts at 0.

> 
> Oh, and open() as well.

open() starts at 3, I think. (0, 1, and 2 are stdin, stdout, and
stderr,
although the situation is slightly different with Linux due to ncurses.
(ncurses seems to like to redirect stdout to stderr on occasion, I'm
not sure
why, among other things.))

jbrown


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