DM>Note that "other languages" cannot change either - in BASIC, it is
DM>ALWAYS 1-based, you can't "sometimes" have it one-based...
 MH> No it isn't.  Basic has a keyword called BASE that'll allow you to make 
 MH> array subscripts either a 0 or a 1.
Then they've been mangled since I used 'em.  :-)
Relevance to C++: compilers will add extentions to make their code 
unportable.  BASE sounds like the same thing, but for BASIC.
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