Re: Lua is about to become history

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Chris Marrin wrote:

> The only important thing to note here is that Lua is NOT an inherantly
> 1-based language.

That relies on pedantry: the string library IS inherently 1-based.

> I use 0 based arrays all the time.

This is an interesting point, though since non-positive numbers never 
get into the array part of a table, there's a performance bias towards 
1-based arrays.

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