spir ☣ het geskryf: >>> Also, is it possible to set a list's base index to 1 (so that >>> last_index=count)? >> No. That would break all other existing code. > > I don't understand. If I set myList.baseIndex := 1, how can it affect > other people's code? It's a new feature that does not touch existing > codebase.
At one point fpGUI switched all list type components to be 1-based. This caused such a lot of issues that I very quickly switched it back to 0-based. Why? Because even though my components were 1-based, the FPC lists where 0-based. So I had to very carefully keep track of which one uses what and often made mistakes. I personally hate 0-based counting because no human counts 0, 1, 2 etc.. so why must computers? But because 0-based is so standardized in programming languages, it's just easier to follow the crowd than fight them. :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
