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		hc on Aug 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero not quite. "foo"[2] is a char, ("foo"+2) is a string.

gjm11 on Aug 21, 2009 [–]

oh, bother, I forgot what HN does to asterisks. In what I wrote above, look for the bit in italics and mentally insert asterisks on each side of it. It was right when I typed it in, I promise...

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