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- Subject: Re: Selenophobia
- From: "Joseph Manning" <manning@...>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 10:53:09 +0000
On 2017-Mar-25 (Sat) at 12:42 (+0200), steve donovan wrote:
>> I've always found the determination of people to hate 1-based indexing
>> puzzling. After all, it's not an offset, it's an index. But each to
>> their own.
Steve,
Yes! In fact, 1-based indexing is one of the ( several ) reasons
that I like Lua. I detest either using, or teaching, the unnatural
"0 to length-1" pattern of many other "high-level"(?) languages.
But you're right -- "each to their own". 0 versus 1 debates are
similar to emacs versus vi debates :-)
Joseph
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