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kzrdude on Jan 20, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

You can't represent the length of that same array in the domain, which is normally enough to make this scenario unusable.

gliptic on Jan 20, 2021 [–]

Not always, I've used bytes to store indexes to arrays of 256 elements. The length doesn't have to be the same narrow type as the indexes.

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