[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes: | I read this as C/C++, and there negative subscripting means something | completely different.
>From "The C Programming Language": "If one is sure that the elements exist, it is also possible to index backwards in an array; p[-1], p[-2], and so on are syntactically legal, and refer to the elements that immediately precede p[0]. Of course, it is illegal to refer to objects that are not within the array bounds." -- Lgb