Arrays with ranged size - optimizing without breaking compatibility with old scripts

[madflame991]

Many many times I wished AutoIt had arrays with ranged size... there are numerous situations when I really don't use element0 from an array simply because I, as a human being, like to count starting from 1. Another thing is that there are some algorithms which can be optimized like in the example below:

Dim $counter[65..90]
For $i = 1 to StringLen($s)
  $counter[Asc(StringMid($s,$i,1))] += 1
Next

should be faster than

Dim $counter[26]
For $i = 1 to StringLen($s)
  $counter[Asc(StringMid($s,$i,1))-65] += 1
Next

because of the missing -65

The best part is that backward compatibility won't be ruined because arrays declared as "Dim $array[10]" will by default mean "Dim $array[0..9]" for the "compiler".
This method of declaring arrays is found in user-friendly programming languages such as Pascal and Basic, whereas the old style is used in the middle level C programming language.
Also, from what I can tell it shouldn't be to hard to implement, but... you know what's best!

Thank you for your time,
madflame991

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[Valik]

Err, no chance in hell that's going to happen. It took me a good 2 minutes just to figure out what the heck you had going on. Imagine how that looks to people who can't understand array's as-is?