Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi> writes: > Ben Bacarisse writes: > >> BartC writes: >> >>> You need to take your C hat off, I think. >> >> It's a computing hat. Indexes are best seen as offsets (i.e. as a >> measured distances from some origin or base). It's a model that grew >> out of machine addressing and assembler address modes many, many >> decades ago -- long before C. C, being a low-level language, >> obviously borrowed it, but pretty much all the well-thought out >> high-level languages have seen the value in it too, though I'd be >> interested in hearing about counter examples. > > Julia, at version 0.5 of the language, is a major counter-example: > 1-based, closed ranges. I think they have been much influenced by the > mathematical practice in linear algebra, possibly through another > computing language.
Interesting. Thanks. <snip> -- Ben. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
