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Why do negative array indices make sense?
The array indexing operation a[i] gains its meaning from the following features of C
The syntax a[i] is equivalent to *(a + i). Thus it is valid to say 5[a] to get at the 5th element of a. … In C, a pointer is abstractly a tuple (start, length, offset) with the condition that 0 <= offset <= length. …