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Add indexing from 1 and it would be perfect.

• chriswarbo 12y ago
  > Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation )
  • cstross 12y ago
    Why index from 1 or 0 when you can overwrite $[ in perl and index from ANYWHERE? (Dammit, as of Perl 5.16 this is not merely deprecated but outsourced to a module ... mutter, grumble)
    • draegtun 12y ago
      IIRC Fortran also allows you do to do this. Another would be Rebol: >> a: [0 1 2 3 4 5] == [0 1 2 3 4 5] >> a/1 == 0 >> a/2 == 1 >> a: next a == [1 2 3 4 5] >> a/1 == 1 >> a/2 == 2 >> a/0 == 0
  • acheron 12y ago
    There are two types of people: 1. People who index from 1. 1. People who index from 0.
  • peterfirefly 12y ago
    Indexing with floats means you need to do rounding. May I suggest a modified version of Banker's Rounding? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_to_even
• sebastianconcpt 12y ago
  Yeah because making the first thing to be the zero thing in a collection is completely logic and does not break common sense consistence or anything.
  • rimantas 12y ago
    First thing has an offset of zero.
  • tormeh 12y ago
    Indexing from 0 is dumb, but it's the standard now and it's almost as good as indexing from 1.