array[-1] -- permitted?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <816 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Is the committee going to break this code?  If so, why, fer Pete's sake?

You should know by now not to believe every raving you hear on the net.
The discussion was about computing out-of-range pointers, then somebody
who hadn't understood the discussion made noises about [-1] array
indexing being outlawed, which is plain silly.