On Monday, 28 April 2014 at 22:31:58 UTC, bearophile wrote:
What's the good of having all arrays always start from index 1 (this is different from Ada, where you can choose the indexing range and type)?
I'd say, for a math-oriented language starting position 1 is more meaningful than starting offset 0, the latter is an idiom for system programming language, the former better corresponds to mathematical formalism.
