> The mistake in APL was to duck the issue by allowing both making generalized indexing difficult.
That is why I say "⎕io *delenda est*" and not "1-origin *delenda est*", although I do have a preference. ⎕io *delenda est*! On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 7:40 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: ... > This may change as now that so many people program and are used to an index > origin of zero. My point was not what the index origin should be when it is > only used to locate a element. One works well as does zero. The mistake in > APL was to duck the issue by allowing both making generalized indexing > difficult. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
