OpenEuphoria

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

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