[Gambas-user] Wiki Update

[Randall Morgan]

I am talking about native gambas arrays of any standard gambas type....

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:

> 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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