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11. Re: String indexing again (score: 268)

Author: Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:27:31 +0100

"A string that doesnt support indexing" sorry that should read, "An array that doesnt support indexing"

12. Re: 1-based indexing in Lua or the one without zero (score: 265)

Author: Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>

Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:58:50 +0200

Totally ok, but I do not understand why you point we have several ways of counting when I stated that was measuring. About points 1..2 when indexing in fortran/c/lua/python you use that, when counti

13. Re: So I had this weird idea to solve the indexing problem (score: 263)

Author: Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@...>

Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 11:57:57 +0200

True but one must remember that index(0) is not enumerated by ipair() which only treats indexes that are part of an uninterrupted ordinal "sequence" from 1 to N. And Lua implementations have normally

14. Re: Request for Lua 6 to have 0-based indexing (score: 260)

Author: Oliver Kroth <oliver.kroth@...>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:08:16 +0100

If you want to start counting from zero, do so. Lua won't stop you doing that. You may even start at -1 or whatever you like. It's not a Lua limitation, only the functions in the table module are use

15. Re: Request for Lua 6 to have 0-based indexing (score: 260)

Author: Ruki Wang <waruqi@...>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:40:40 +0800

Oh, I just upgraded from luajit to lua5.4 because lua is very maintainable and did not encounter too many compatibility issues. If it is introduced in lua 6, maybe I can only use lua 5.x forever or s

16. Re: Request for Lua 6 to have 0-based indexing (score: 260)

Author: Tom Yaxley <tommitytom@...>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:09:12 +1100

As much as I would love Lua to have been implemented using 0-based indexing, changing it at this point is completely unrealistic.  It's so massively breaking that every existing lua application would

17. 1-based indexing in Lua (score: 260)

Author: Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:36:39 +0200

2018-03-29 7:48 GMT+02:00 Charles Heywood <vandor2012@gmail.com>: Agreed. Moreover, it is not strictly correct to say that Lua has 1-based indexing. Even to say that the Lua standard library and the

18. Re: 1-based indexing in Lua or the one without zero (score: 259)

Author: Francisco Olarte <folarte@...>

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:35:39 +0200

I'm not discussing indexing. I'm discussing how I pace a distance ( or see people pace it ). Maybe my choice of words was bad, I meant "stand still at the start and say one, two, three as I walked.".

19. Re: Request for Lua 6 to have 0-based indexing (score: 254)

Author: Flyer31 Test <flyer31@...>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:47:12 +0100

But concerning string indices, counting strings starting from zero is awkward... try to explain this to your grandparents :). Concerning strings, I also love this additional possibility to use neg in

20. RE: Request for Lua 6 to have 0-based indexing (score: 254)

Author: Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@...>

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:33:34 -0600

To clarify the offset point: <o:p> </o:p> It?s not just about pointers, it?s useful any time you have an ?edge? that you want to start from, and you want to e.g. loop through something and get an off