[REBOL] Re: Correct Behaviour? Was False = 2 ????
From: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 5-Jul-2001 20:47
Hello Joel and all :-)
first, - let me state, that I hate any kind of inconsistences and I
expressed it here for several times. Maybe I am not struggling so much with
zero vs one based indexing, like explanation of "polymorphism" of 'first
function. Typical question - why should I use "first" on listen port? What
will "second" do? I can see it more confusing then using if another 10
special function names existed for various cases. The most ugly part of
rebol code is probably getting to objects words and values: "first next",
second next
.
I remember even some discussion re new century. Some of us (including me),
celebrated new century once 1999 changed to 2000, some of us, once 2000
changed to 2001. Why the heck 2001? It seems to me a little bit stupid :-)
Once we born, we are at 0 .... 1day old, 1week old, 1month old, and we
celebrate our 1st birthday at some 365th day. When do we celebrate 100th
year of our birthday? Surely once we change from 99 to some + 365days.
But, when we say something happened during our first year of life, we mean
actually pre 1 period, I mean 0 to +365days.
I saw so much flames, that I regard such discussions more philosophical,
than practical.
I think, that Rebol nowadays, needs completly different things to become
more succesfull, usable, and all that ... async behavior, modules, add-on
functionality (XML, SOAP), additions to View engine, Core etc. Change to 0
based indexing will not save our lifes here ;-)
Cheers,
-pekr-
