"abcdef"[3] == 3["abcdef"], but why?

[Chris Torek]

In article <519.nlhp3 at oracle.nl> bengsig at oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>Article <19883 at mimsy.UUCP> by chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) explains
>how the compiler could/does handle 3["abcde"].  This was very well done,
>except that 3["abcde"] actually evaluates to the char 'd' and not 'c'.

Oh my.  How embarrassing.

>I'm sure that Chris nows that C arrays start with index 0, right Chris :-)

He does now :-)
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