On Apr 1, 11:58 pm, Lie <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 1, 7:06 pm, Steven D'Aprano > > <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > There is a major clash between the names of ordinals in human languages > > and zero-based counting. In human languages, the Nth-ordinal item comes > > in position N. You can keep that useful convention with zero-based > > counting by inventing the ugly word "zeroth", but that just leads to > > bizarro-talk like "the zeroeth item comes first, the first item comes > > second, and so on". > > No, there won't be any bizarro-talk. There is no argument: the zeroeth > item comes zeroeth, the first item comes first, and so on. The index > for the very zeroeth thing in a list is 0, so to get the zeroeth item > you use s[0]. While to get the first item you use s[1]. It's very > intuitive, isn't it?
Robot 1: I won zeroeth place at the contest, honey! Robot 2: Congratulations! I knew you could do it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
