Re: [sv-ec] RE: 0001721: Ballot comment #188 order used for find and find_index

From: <jonathan.bromley_at_.....>
Date: Sat Jun 13 2009 - 02:45:22 PDT
> 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

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