With pointer-based strings or arrays, as in C , it is natural to start at index 0, so that you can do pointer arithmetic: address+0 is the first character/item. Then, if you have a string or array of length n, the last item is at n-1.
Joshua On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mibu <mibu.cloj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why does range in Clojure use an inclusive-exclusive range? > > I'm aware of the traditional substring range convention, which always > puzzled me as to how an unintuitive and error-prone use became > cemented as the norm. > > I'm not calling for a change in range. I'm just genuinely curious. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
