RS> No, he was right.  QuickBasic and QBasic have an OPTION BASE statement
 RS> that is used to set the base value for arrays.  There are two possible 
 RS> values for OPTION BASE, 0 or 1.  The default is 0.
 RS> I know this is offtopic, OTOH, I'm sure you don't want to go around 
 RS> giving out false information.
I'm sure you wouldn't either. You can set array bounds to whatever you
wish in QB. Even negative numbers. And Option Base 0 and 1 existed in
GWBasic and Basic(a). And the default base in all those basics is 0.
And, to stay on topic, you can do much more fancier things than that in
C++. :-)
matju
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