BartC <b...@freeuk.com> writes: > On 18/12/2016 10:59, Paul Götze wrote: >> there is a nice short article by E. W. Dijkstra about why it makes sense >> to start numbering at zero (and exclude the upper given bound) while >> slicing a list. Might give a bit of additional understanding. >> >> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF > > (This from somebody who apparently can't use a typewriter?!) > > I don't know if the arguments there are that convincing. Both lower > bounds of 0 and 1 are useful; some languages will use 0, some 1, and > some can have any lower bound. > > But a strong argument for using 1 is that in real life things are > usually counted from 1 (and measured from 0).
The index of an element is a measure, not a count. <snip> -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
