[REBOL] Re: Correct Behaviour? Was False = 2 ????
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 4-Jul-2001 14:11
Hello, again, Jeff,
Jeff Kreis wrote:
> Indeed. "First" can map to anything, but how it maps is pretty
> clear, it refers to the element at position one (whatever
> position one is defined as).
>
Only if one's head is stuck in 1-origin mode. (Quoth Samuel
Jackson in _The_Matrix_, "Free your mind!" ;-) "First" refers
to the item in an ordered collection which precedes all others.
#"A" is the first upper-case letter, even though its numeric
value in ASCII is 65. It remains the first upper-case letter
even if you switch to EBCDIC, which gives it a different
number.
> > My "first" name is Joel.
>
> Ahh, so you've got a one base indexed name, huh?
>
No. That part of my name simply precedes all other parts.
The concept of "one" doesn't even appear.
> > And, as I mentioned earlier, the first house in my block
> > has an index (street number) of 1262.
>
> Which, I guess, is the house in position 1?
>
No. It's the house in position 1262. That house precedes all
the others in the block.
> If the mailman is a zero based indexer, does the first house
> get his neighbor's mail? (;
>
The mail man doesn't have to count them to deliver the
mail; he only has to match the label on the house to the
label on the envelope. SAME? works just as well in either
1-origin or 0-origin! ;-)
-jn-
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