11 Dec
2002
11 Dec
'02
5:48 p.m.
On 11 Dec 2002 at 3:13, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
`arraytype[initindex .. initindex + length - 1]'.
I don't know why EP chose that syntax (perhaps some other compiler(s) had that already?)...
Ada uses this notation (called "array slices"). But the form goes back at least to various BASICs of the 1970s, where substring variable accesses were specified in this manner (with slight syntactic variations).
-- Dave