On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:40:17 -0700 (PDT), Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Lada, > >I am also an engineer, and I can tell your idea of intuitive is not >universal, even among engineers. I certainly do not lean toward one- >based indexing. > >From a programming standpoint--and remember Python is a programming >language--zero-based indexing eliminates the need for a whole lot of >extra +1s and -1s when indexing, slicing, and iterating, a lot more >than it causes, and that is worth the "cost". This might not be >apparent to you if you never tried seriously taking advantage of >indexing from zero, or if your programming experience is very narrow. >These both seem to be true for you, so you'll just have to take my >word for it. You have repeated several cs based points already stated. But apart from a programming standpoint - could you give a few examples, where "on paper" (as to avoid stepping into "programmer's territory") zero indexing could be more intuitive ? (of course, taking into account your previous based calculations, which are based on 1 indexing - I imagine you still use matrices with a11 as a first element) Lada -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
