> 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:
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> 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.
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