Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's interesting to muse about a language that starts at "1" for all > arrays and strings, as some more or less obsolete languages do. I > think this is more intuitive, since most people (including > mathematicians) start counting at "1". The reason for starting at > "0" is easier memory address calculation, so nothing for really high > level languages.
There are very good reasons for half-open intervals and starting at 0 apart from memory organization. Dijkstra explained this quite well in http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF Bernhard -- Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ Skencil http://skencil.org/ Thuban http://thuban.intevation.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
