Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
I personally hate 0-based counting because no
human counts 0, 1, 2 etc.. so why must computers?
Yes. That's my feeling too. Zero-based arrays/lists always generate
trouble because of substracting or adding one in many places. It makes
code much less readable.
Read Index as offset form start. Then the index 0 makse some sense for
the first element :)
But because 0-based is so
standardized in programming languages,
Well, it is mainly C that has this "standardization". In Pascal this was
never a standard.
it's just easier to follow the crowd
than fight them. :-)
In the first place it is. But if it would be available, the crowd may
change its mind.
IIRC indexes in VB were 1 based, didn't change much
Marc
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