On 19/12/2016 01:10, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
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.
You need to take your C hat off, I think.
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