[REBOL] Re: R: Re: Correct Behaviour? Was False = 2 ????
From: robbo1mark:aol at: 4-Jul-2001 4:20
Odd Man Out?
I did a quick language check last night and it seems
REBOL is now odd man out as far as zero indexing is concerned.
I looked at Visual Basic, Pascal, Modula-2, C, C++, C#, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python,
Fortran amongst others and they ALL use zero based indexing.
Now before anybody screams at me about Visual-Sickbay if you check the latest VB.NET
you will see they have changed completely to zero based indexing, whereas before with
VB6 you had the option of an offset which allowed you to use either 0 or 1 based indexing.
Fortran dates from the mid / late Nineteen Fifties so I declare now we can stop attributing
blame for this at that Langauage which WE dare Not mention it's name.
cheers,
Mark Dickson
In a message dated Tue, 3 Jul 2001 2:59:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Chris <[chris--starforge--co--uk]>
writes:
<< #03-Jul-01# Message from [*JELINEM1--nationwide--com*]:
Hi [JELINEM1--nationwide--com],
> INDEX or POSITION? Are we mathematicians (INDEX) or, um, not (POSITION)?
We're programmers: we both and neither.
> After programming in C for a decade myself, I STILL had to mentally coerce
> myself into remembering "array starts at zero, loop until less-than the
> length...". This came from firm roots in BASIC as a first language. I
Learning BASIC is like being taught at a Catholic school (I should know, I
went to one;)) - you never get over it. My brush with BASIC was thankfully
short, after 6 or 7 years of C, c++ and now Java programming I find myself
using 0 indexed values all over the place unless I stop myself! :)
Chris
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