[Gambas-user] Wiki Update

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Randall Morgan wrote:
> We were looking at: http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/cat/arraydecl
> But don't all array indices in Gambas begin at Zero?
> 

What does it mean to be an array? I'm not sure. If you call an "array" what
can be used like an array then these are the classes implementing the _get()
and/or _put() special methods.

Collection also implements these methods but takes string indices. Tomorrow
I can add "Matlab-compatible" classes to a component which index from 1 on,
or a class that uses matrices or powers of Pi to index.

But yes, if you qualify an array as either:
  a) native arrays or
  b) array classes created on-the-fly by the interpreter when using the
     <ClassName>[] syntax ("derived arrays")
then you can say that indexing begins at zero, for sure. These make ~ 80%
of array uses in my projects, from a very quick grep. So much for its
raison d'etre.

Maybe we should add an article into the Lexicon[0]?

Regards,
Tobi

[0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/def

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