alt Hacker NewsThere is also the idea that the language is so good because such things are caught at compile time via the type system. (But this is generally not done for the same reason it is not done in C.)
There is also the idea that the language is so good because such things are caught at compile time via the type system. (But this is generally not done for the same reason it is not done in C.)
As shown in PL/I or NEWP, C could have done it both ways, checked and unchecked when really required, e.g. PREFIX(SUBSCRIPTRANGE), PREFIX(NOSUBSCRIPTRANGE).
Likewise regarding the storage for the length, if one is willing to go the way C went down a few years later, declare a pointer and make the array storage be pointer based, e.g. BASED(MY_ARRAY_PTR).