Hi,
Am 04.03.2009 um 14:06 schrieb Mibu:
On Mar 4, 2:46 pm, Michael Wood wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu wrote:
Why does range in Clojure use an inclusive-exclusive range?
For what it's worth, Python's range function works the same way.
I think Clojure's design leans towards
(+1 for Konrad's point regarding concat).
Two points, in favor of 0-based indexing (as opposed to 1-based)
When you look at a piece of code and see zero used as an index into
some custom-made collection, you immediately know that this is a
reference to the first item. Except for the rare cases o
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Mibu wrote:
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> Joshua, my puzzlement is not with the first element but the last.
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> For example, the (range -1 2) gives (-1 0 1).
Because, if you have a vector of 10 elements, (and your language
starts indexing from 0) you can use (range 10) for the indexes,
ins
On Mar 4, 2009, at 14:06, Mibu wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2:46 pm, Michael Wood wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu wrote:
>>> Why does range in Clojure use an inclusive-exclusive range?
>> For what it's worth, Python's range function works the same way.
>
> I think Clojure's design leans to
Joshua, my puzzlement is not with the first element but the last.
For example, the (range -1 2) gives (-1 0 1).
On Mar 4, 3:06 pm, Joshua Fox wrote:
> This is discussed, with references,
> herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array#Index_of_the_first_element
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On Mar 4, 2:46 pm, Michael Wood wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu wrote:
> > Why does range in Clojure use an inclusive-exclusive range?
> For what it's worth, Python's range function works the same way.
I think Clojure's design leans towards what's right more than what's
custom eve
This is discussed, with references, here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Array#Index_of_the_first_element
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu wrote:
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> Why does range in Clojure use an inclusive-exclusive range?
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> I'm aware of the traditional substring range convention, which always
> puzzled me as to how an unintuitive and error-prone use became
> cemented as the norm.
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> I'm not calling for a
With pointer-based strings or arrays, as in C , it is natural to start at
index 0, so that you can do pointer arithmetic: address+0 is the first
character/item.
Then, if you have a string or array of length n, the last item is at n-1.
Joshua
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu wrote:
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> Why d
