Maybe my thinking is just warped by the language, but I think 0 indexing is the right thing most-- but not all-- of the time. Looking at my code I have relativ

Maybe my thinking is just warped by the language, but I think 0 indexing is the right thing most-- but not all-- of the time. Looking at my code I have relatively few places where I need to -1 to convert a natural 1 index into a zero index. It would be easy for languages to offer two array access syntaxes, one for 0 and one for 1 like array[i] for 0 index and array{i} for 1 index access, then the accessing code could use the right tool for the job. Unlike defining the indexing type as a property of an array you shouldn't have problems with accidentally using the wrong one at time of use. ... but to really know if it's a good idea you'd have to test it, and sadly very few concepts in programming are subjected to any kind of rigorous scientific study.