> Surely an array?s indices prescribe an order and that?s > what first and last means That is a very reasonable position, but it was certainly not obvious to me, nor (I suspect) to Dave. I had assumed that first and last were intended to reflect traversal order. > I believe I?ve answered that above: first is the array item with the > smallest index that satisfies the expression Again that is a perfectly reasonable answer, but I don't see anything obvious about it. Why should I infer that "first" means smallest rather than leftmost index? -- Jonathan Bromley -- Scanned by iCritical. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Sat Jun 13 02:51:33 2009
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