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Re: 0-based Indexing

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 17, 2003
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Hi Mike, you wrote:

> VB 6.0 defaults to base 0 if Option Base is not used;

After my understanding, 'Option Base' is a global variable, and it's
value also affects code in include files, right?
If so, this is "poison" regarding modular programming, I think.

> also you can set lower and upper bounds:
>
> Dim YearData(1970 to 2010) as Integer
>
> This is rather useful, as you can use 0-based, 1-based, or some other base,
> whichever suits the algorithm at hand.

Full agreement.

Best regards,
   Juergen

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