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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman
  3. From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
  4. Subject: Re: Enum's start at 0?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.033842.10112@seas.gwu.edu>
  6. Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
  7. Organization: George Washington University
  8. References: <238@trident.datasys.swri.edu>
  9. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 03:38:42 GMT
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  12. In article <238@trident.datasys.swri.edu> tim@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Timothy J. Barton) writes:
  13. >Just curious, but is there a reason enumerated type's POS values
  14. >start at 0 instead of 1?
  15. >
  16. Just like everything else in computing. ASCII characters, for example,
  17. run from 0 to 127, not 128. You can represent 0..127 using one less bit than
  18. 1..128.
  19.  
  20. Mike Feldman
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  22. Michael B. Feldman
  23. co-chair, SIGAda Education Committee
  24.  
  25. Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  26. School of Engineering and Applied Science
  27. The George Washington University
  28. Washington, DC 20052 USA
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  31. mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet)
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