Re: 0-based Indexing
- Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Jul 16, 2003
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:36:18PM -0500, C. K. Lester wrote: > Okay, I get that... and that's reasonable for the behind-the-scenes data > manipulation, but why not hide that detail and use 1-based indexing? Is it > that much of a performance issue? Like Greg said, 1-based indexing is more > intuitive, easier to read and understand... "Behind-the-scenes" ? I guess that would depend on how high level the language was. I.e. I wouldn't expect an assembly language to do that "behind the scenes". If you mean something as high level as Euphoria or Python tho, then I guess that sort of idea would make more sense. jbrown > > > > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! > > -- /"\ ASCII ribbon | http://www.geocities.com/jbrown1050/ \ / campain against | Linux User:190064 X HTML in e-mail and | Linux Machine:84163 /*\ news, and unneeded MIME | http://verify.stanford.edu/evote.html