Lada Kugis wrote: > I'm coming from fortran and *********** c *********** > background so I'm certainly biased by > them. But if you could explain one thing to me: but this is exactly the same behaviour as the standard way of doing things in c! int a[5]; for (i = 0; i < 5; ++i) { a[i] = 0; } were you being honest about the c background?! andrew