Another advantage is with ranges: 0-based indexing and exclusive ranges work well. This is apparent with cursor position in text selection Consider: Chara

Another advantage is with ranges: 0-based indexing and exclusive ranges work well. This is apparent with cursor position in text selection Consider: Characters h e l l o Cursor index 0 1 2 3 4 5 Char index 0 1 2 3 4 Range [0,3) [0,1,2] Range [2,5) [2,3,4] Range [1,1) [] If we used 1-based indexing and exclusive ranges, it leads to ranges where the end index is greater than the string's length... Characters h e l l o Cursor index 0 1 2 3 4 5 Char index 1 2 3 4 5 Range [1,4) [1,2,3] Range [3,6) (!) [3,4,5] Range [2,2) [] but if we use inclusive ranges, it leads to ranges where the end index is less than the start index... Characters h e l l o Cursor index 0 1 2 3 4 5 Char index 1 2 3 4 5 Range [1,3] [1,2,3] Range [3,5] [3,4,5] Range [2,1) (!) [] Also: Characters h e l l o Cursor index 0 1 2 3 4 5 0-based range [0,3) [0,1,2] 1-based range [1,4) [1,2,3] for the 0-based range [0, 3), the left array bracket is at cursor index 0, and the right bracket is at index 3. With 1-based indexing it doesn't work like that because the range is [1, 4)