Fortran-like arrays such as FArray(Float64, -1:1,-7:7,-128:512) in Julia
There are now two packages that provide this kind of functionality. For arrays with arbitrary start indices, see https://github.com/alsam/OffsetArrays.jl. For even more flexibility see https://github.com/mbauman/AxisArrays.jl, where indices do not have to be integers.