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> Except, of course, -0 doesn't exist.

Not for integers on modern hardware. If only hardware used ones’ complement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones'_complement)… ;-)

Meanwhile, the workaround is to use -1 through -5 to index from the end of the array.

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That makes sense; in the diagram of the 4-element array, 3 points at the same point as -1.

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That makes sense; in the diagram of the 4-element array, 3 points at the same point as -1.

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