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Hans Dietrich wrote:

Expect ten more people to close their accounts here because you've disrespected
VB!

Slacker007 wrote:

if you are on the ground floor, isn't that floor 1? and the floor above you
would be floor 2?

Slacker007 wrote:

Then again, I'm just a silly American who started off programming with VB.

mikemarquard wrote:

I don't get your point. VB.NET is base zero only. Classic VB used base zero by
default although you could set an option to make it base one

mikemarquard wrote:

let you pick the base

public partial class Array<T>
{
  protected T[] array ;

  public Array
  (
    int BaseIndex
  ,
    int Capacity
  )
  {
    this.BaseIndex = BaseIndex ;

    this.array = new T [ Capacity ] ;

    return ;
  }

  public virtual int BaseIndex { get ; private set ; }

  public virtual int Capacity
  {
    get
    {
      return ( this.array.Length ) ;
    }
  }

  public virtual T
  this
  [
    int Index
  ]
  {
    get
    {
      return ( this.array [ Index + this.BaseIndex ] ) ;
    }

    set
    {
      this.array [ Index + this.BaseIndex ]  = value ;

      return ;
    }
  }
}

Dim myArray(0 to 10) As Double

MSBassSinger wrote:

I don't get your point. VB uses zero based indices.   VB6 had the
flexibility to allow you to define what the number was the initial index in an
array is - perhaps that is what is confusing you. 

MSBassSinger wrote:

prefer C/C++/Java to VB, even though it is less productive.

Member 2941392 wrote:

Oh, thinly disguised US-bashing troll.

Member 2941392 wrote:

Maybe the reason why VB is "popular" in the US is because the US leads the world
in computing, with more software, more software engineers, more papers and
patents, etc. That means even relatively lame tools like VB have a larger
following here. Maybe also it's because BASIC was invented in 1963 at Dartmouth
College in New Hampshire, when most of Europe was still dreaming pulp sci-fi
dreams of "electronic brains".
 
Many BASICs in the US can address
the zero-th element of an array. The ANSI standard for BASIC even has a
statement, called OPTION BASE that says whether to start numbering array
elements at 0 or 1.